Off-by-one in QEMU - CVE-2021-3930
Published: December 9, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU58812
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3930
CWE-ID: CWE-193
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: QEMU
Affected software:
QEMU
QEMU
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an off-by-one error in the SCSI device emulation in QEMU. A remote user on the guest OS can can trigger an off-by-one error while processing MODE SELECT commands in mode_sense_page() if the 'page' argument is set to MODE_PAGE_ALLS (0x3f). Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in QEMU crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2021-3930
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.