CVE-2021-3682

Summary

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.1.0-rc2. It occurs when dropping packets during a bulk transfer from a SPICE client due to the packet queue being full. A malicious SPICE client could use this flaw to make QEMU call free() with faked heap chunk metadata, resulting in a crash of QEMU or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aQEMUqemu 6.1.0-rc2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-763: CWE-763

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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