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CVE-2021-3546
high
Description
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. The flaw occurs while processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command from the guest. It could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27