Denial of service in QEMU ATI VGA device

1) Out-of-bounds write

EUVDB-ID: #VU72306

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.9 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3638

CWE-ID: CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds write

Exploit availability: No

Description

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.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

QEMU: All versions

External links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979858
http://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3638
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg01682.html
http://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0003/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to trick the victim to open a a specially crafted file.

The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.