CVE-2021-3682

Published Aug 5, 2021

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

Description
A flaw was found in the USB redirector device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.1.0-rc2. It occurs when dropping packets during a bulk transfer from a SPICE client due to the packet queue being full. A malicious SPICE client could use this flaw to make QEMU call free() with faked heap chunk metadata, resulting in a crash of QEMU or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
8.5
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
6.8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-763
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-763

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations