Access of Uninitialized Pointer The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-QEMU-1618069
  • published17 Jun 2021
  • disclosed15 Jun 2021

Introduced: 15 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-3593  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An invalid pointer initialization issue was found in the SLiRP networking implementation of QEMU. The flaw exists in the udp6_input() function and could occur while processing a udp packet that is smaller than the size of the 'udphdr' structure. This issue may lead to out-of-bounds read access or indirect host memory disclosure to the guest. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects libslirp versions prior to 4.6.0.