CVE-2021-3546 PUBLISHED

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. The flaw occurs while processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command from the guest. It could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

EPSS 0.04% · 13.3th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.04%
13.3th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSqemu0, 1:4.0+dfsg-0ubuntu9, 1:4.0+dfsg-0ubuntu10
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSqemu0, 1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1, 1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu2

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