CVE-2021-3638

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations when the guest provides invalid values for the destination display parameters. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Se ha encontrado un fallo de acceso a memoria fuera de límites en la emulación de dispositivos ATI VGA de QEMU. Este fallo es producido en la rutina ati_2d_blt() mientras son manejadas operaciones de escritura MMIO cuando el huésped proporciona valores no válidos para los parámetros de pantalla de destino. Un huésped malicioso podría usar este fallo para bloquear el proceso QEMU en el host, resultando en una denegación de servicio

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-07-08 CVE Reserved
2021-10-28 CVE Published
2023-10-23 EPSS Updated
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2024-08-03 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CAPEC

References (6)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979858	Issue Tracking
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0003	Third Party Advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3638	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg01682.html	2024-08-03

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK	2023-02-23
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O	2023-02-23

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Qemu Search vendor "Qemu"		Qemu Search vendor "Qemu" for product "Qemu"				>= 4.0.0 <= 6.1.0 Search vendor "Qemu" for product "Qemu" and version " >= 4.0.0 <= 6.1.0"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				36 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "36"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				37 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "37"		-		Affected