Security Advisory

CVE-2021-3546

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-06-02 13:30:30
Last updated 2024-08-03 17:01:07
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.