Medium severity · published May 13, 2021
CVE-2021-20221
An out-of-bounds heap buffer access issue was found in the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulator of QEMU up to and including qemu 4.2.0on aarch64 platform
6.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An out-of-bounds heap buffer access issue was found in the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulator of QEMU up to and including qemu 4.2.0on aarch64 platform. The issue occurs because while writing an interrupt ID to the controller memory area, it is not masked to be 4 bits wide. It may lead to the said issue while updating controller state fields and their subsequent processing. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
through 4.2.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20221
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20221
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/05/1
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924601
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00024.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210708-0005/
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