SB2023021576 - Denial of service in QEMU ATI VGA device
Published: February 15, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023021576
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3638)
The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU within the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations. A malicious guest can crash the QEMU process on the host.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979858
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3638
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg01682.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0003/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/