Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kvmtool package, versions <0.20170904-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-KVMTOOL-2407980
  • published15 Apr 2026
  • disclosed15 Apr 2023

Introduced: 15 Apr 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 kvmtool to version 0.20170904-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kvmtool package and not the kvmtool package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 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 Base Scores

version 3.1