Vulnerability CVE-2021-3748


Published: 2022-03-23

Description:
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to num_buffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Type:

CWE-416

(Use After Free)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
QEMU -> QEMU 

 References:
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/bedd7e93d01961fcb16a97ae45d93acf357e11f6
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3748
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998514
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg00388.html

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