High severity · published Mar 23, 2022
CVE-2021-3748
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% 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 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization Eus · Redhat
8.4 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
34 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
0.10.0 before 6.2.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
18.04; 20.04; 21.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3748
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3748
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998514
Patch
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/bedd7e93d01961fcb16a97ae45d93acf357e11f6
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00002.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
Mailing List
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg00388.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
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