CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-3748
High (7.5). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to num_buffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- qemu:qemu
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_advanced_virtualization_eus
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998514
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/bedd7e93d01961fcb16a97ae45d93acf357e11f6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00002.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg00388.html