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CVE-2021-3527 Detail

Description

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device (usb-redir) of QEMU. Small USB packets are combined into a single, large transfer request, to reduce the overhead and improve performance. The combined size of the bulk transfer is used to dynamically allocate a variable length array (VLA) on the stack without proper validation. Since the total size is not bounded, a malicious guest could use this flaw to influence the array length and cause the QEMU process to perform an excessive allocation on the stack, resulting in a denial of service.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  5.5 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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Hyperlink Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1955695 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/05a40b172e4d691371534828078be47e7fff524c Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/7ec54f9eb62b5d177e30eb8b1cad795a5f8d8986 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00000.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210708-0008/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/05/5 Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling cwe source acceptance level NIST   Contributor acceptance level Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-3527
NVD Published Date:
05/26/2021
NVD Last Modified:
09/30/2022
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.