GHSA-m53p-4wch-f983
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022
A flaw was found in vhost-user-gpu of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. An out-of-bounds write vulnerability can allow a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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Timeline
- May 24, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/31/1 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3546 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958978 url
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980 url
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008 url