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CVE-2021-3607 (GCVE-0-2021-3607)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-24 18:50 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:01
VLAI
Summary
An integer overflow was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest due to improper input validation. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to make QEMU allocate a large amount of memory, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Severity
6.0 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-190 - >CWE-770->(CWE-125|CWE-476)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a QEMU Affected: qemu-kvm 6.1.0
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