CVE-2021-3748

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    CVE-2021-3748

    Published: 23 Mar 2022Last Modified: 9 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to num_buffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00002.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0004/, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998514, https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/bedd7e93d01961fcb16a97ae45d93acf357e11f6, https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg00388.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3748

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 25c4fde17775821182a76fb8ea2ba2223c5729b9
    Fixed -44f28df24767cf9dca1ddc9b23157737c4cbb645

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
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    High
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