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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-3592

A malicious guest could use this flaw to leak 10 bytes of uninitialized heap memory from the host.

LOW 3.8EPSS 0.33%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An invalid pointer initialization issue was found in the SLiRP networking implementation of QEMU. The flaw exists in the bootp_input() function and could occur while processing a udp packet that is smaller than the size of the 'bootp_t' structure. A malicious guest could use this flaw to leak 10 bytes of uninitialized heap memory from the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects libslirp versions prior to 4.6.0.

CVSS 3.1
3.8 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.33% probability · 26th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-824
Affected
libslirp project/libslirp · redhat/enterprise linux · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora
Source
secalert@redhat.com

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