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CVE-2021-3608

Publication date 18 June 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.0 · Medium

Score breakdown

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest and may result in a crash of QEMU or cause undefined behavior due to the access of an uninitialized pointer. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1
21.10 impish
Fixed 1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 1:5.2+dfsg-9ubuntu3.1
20.10 groovy
Fixed 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.9
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.0 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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