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CVE-2021-3507
medium
Description
A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including). It could occur in fdctrl_transfer_handler() in hw/block/fdc.c while processing DMA read data transfers from the floppy drive to the guest system. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario, or potential information leakage from the host memory.
References
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210528-0005/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html