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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-3507

A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including).

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 0.49%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.49%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including). It could occur in fdctrl_transfer_handler() in hw/block/fdc.c while processing DMA read data transfers from the floppy drive to the guest system. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario, or potential information leakage from the host memory.

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
EPSS
0.49% probability · 41th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119, CWE-787
Affected
qemu/qemu · debian/debian linux · redhat/enterprise linux
Source
secalert@redhat.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.