CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-4206
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-04-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120, CWE-131, CWE-190
Description
A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. An integer overflow in the cursor_alloc() function can lead to the allocation of a small cursor object followed by a subsequent heap-based buffer overflow. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (< 7.0.0)
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036998 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://starlabs.sg/advisories/21-4206/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5133 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036998 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250321-0010/ security.netapp.com
- https://starlabs.sg/advisories/21-4206/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5133 Third Party Advisory