# CVE-2021-3409: The patch for CVE-2020-17380/CVE-2020-25085 was found to be ineffective, thus making QEMU vulnerable to the out-of-bounds read/write access

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-03-23 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a QEMU: up to (including) 5.2.0

## Description

The patch for CVE-2020-17380/CVE-2020-25085 was found to be ineffective, thus making QEMU vulnerable to the out-of-bounds read/write access issues previously found in the SDHCI controller emulation code. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. QEMU up to (including) 5.2.0 is affected by this.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a QEMU, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928146
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0001/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27

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