CVE-2021-3638 Information

Description

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations when the guest provides invalid values for the destination display parameters. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979858 https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3638 https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg01682.html https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0003/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5