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.
The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
---|---|---|---|
Qemu | Qemu | * | 6.1.0 (excluding) |
Qemu | Qemu | 6.1.0-rc1 (including) | 6.1.0-rc1 (including) |
This weakness can take several forms, such as: