CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-3545

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Jun 02, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.2 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

An information disclosure vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. The flaw exists in virgl_cmd_get_capset_info() in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c and could occur due to the read of uninitialized memory. A malicious guest could exploit this issue to leak memory from the host.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 6.0.0 (including)
Qemu Ubuntu devel *
Qemu Ubuntu focal *
Qemu Ubuntu groovy *
Qemu Ubuntu hirsute *
Qemu Ubuntu impish *
Qemu Ubuntu jammy *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu xenial *
Qemu-kvm Ubuntu precise/esm *

Potential Mitigations

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