Description
An out-of-bounds heap buffer access issue was found in the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulator of QEMU up to and including qemu 4.2.0on aarch64 platform. The issue occurs because while writing an interrupt ID to the controller memory area, it is not masked to be 4 bits wide. It may lead to the said issue while updating controller state fields and their subsequent processing. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.
Published: 2021-05-13
Score: 6.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2560-1 qemu security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3099-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-7662 An out-of-bounds heap buffer access issue was found in the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulator of QEMU up to and including qemu 4.2.0on aarch64 platform. The issue occurs because while writing an interrupt ID to the controller memory area, it is not masked to be 4 bits wide. It may lead to the said issue while updating controller state fields and their subsequent processing. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5010-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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Debian Debian Linux
Qemu Qemu
Redhat Advanced Virtualization Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:30:07.645Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-20221

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-13T16:15:07.697

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:09.497

Link: CVE-2021-20221

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20221 - Bugzilla

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