CVE-2021-3750

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 12
Modified
Published: 02 May 2022, 18:48
Last modified:03 Aug 2024, 17:09

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
43/100
CVSS Score
8.2 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.03% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

02 May 2022, 18:48
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Aug 2024, 17:09
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the USB EHCI controller emulation of QEMU. EHCI does not verify if the Buffer Pointer overlaps with its MMIO region when it transfers the USB packets. Crafted content may be written to the controller's registers and trigger undesirable actions (such as reset) while the device is still transferring packets. This can ultimately lead to a use-after-free issue. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process on the host. This flaw affects QEMU versions before 7.0.0.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.03%• Percentile: 9%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-416•Use After Free

    The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Systems

  • qemu•qemu

    < 7.0.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux

    8.0

References (5)