CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-3608
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-02-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-824
Description
A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest and may result in a crash of QEMU or cause undefined behavior due to the access of an uninitialized pointer. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (< 6.1.0)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• fedoraproject fedora 34
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973383 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-06/msg07926.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973383 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-06/msg07926.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0002/ Third Party Advisory