Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kvmtool package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-KVMTOOL-2407231
  • published19 Feb 2022
  • disclosed15 Apr 2023

Introduced: 19 Feb 2022

CVE-2021-45464  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 kvmtool.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kvmtool package and not the kvmtool package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

kvmtool through 39181fc allows an out-of-bounds write, related to virtio/balloon.c and virtio/pci.c. This allows a guest OS user to execute arbitrary code on the host machine.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1