CVE-2021-3608

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest and may result in a crash of QEMU or cause undefined behavior due to the access of an uninitialized pointer. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0002/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-06/msg07926.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973383

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3