Use After Free Affecting qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga package, versions <5.2.0-150300.121.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-QEMUHWDISPLAYVIRTIOVGA-3367933
  • published22 Mar 2023
  • disclosed21 Mar 2023

Introduced: 21 Mar 2023

CVE-2021-3929  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga to version 5.2.0-150300.121.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga package and not the qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the NVM Express Controller (NVME) emulation in QEMU. This CVE is similar to CVE-2021-3750 and, just like it, when the reentrancy write triggers the reset function nvme_ctrl_reset(), data structs will be freed leading 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, executing arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process on the host.

CVSS Scores

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