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CVE-2021-3527

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device (usb-redir) of QEMU.

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Summary

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device (usb-redir) of QEMU. Small USB packets are combined into a single, large transfer request, to reduce the overhead and improve performance. The combined size of the bulk transfer is used to dynamically allocate a variable length array (VLA) on the stack without proper validation. Since the total size is not bounded, a malicious guest could use this flaw to influence the array length and cause the QEMU process to perform an excessive allocation on the stack, resulting in a denial of service.

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Affected versions

  • n/a QEMU

    All versions

References 8

bugzilla.redhat.com

openwall.com

gitlab.com

security.netapp.com

lists.debian.org

security.gentoo.org