Information Exposure Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,6.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007170
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-3545  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 6.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An information disclosure vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. The flaw exists in virgl_cmd_get_capset_info() in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c and could occur due to the read of uninitialized memory. A malicious guest could exploit this issue to leak memory from the host.

CVSS Scores

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