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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3527

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3527 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device (usb-redir) of QEMU. Small USB packets are combined into a single, large transfer request, to reduce the overhead and improve performance. The combined size of the bulk transfer is used to dynamically allocate a variable length array (VLA) on the stack without proper validation. Since the total size is not bounded, a malicious guest could use this flaw to influence the array length and cause the QEMU process to perform an excessive allocation on the stack, resulting in a denial of service.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:11qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:14qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:12qemu0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • May 26, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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