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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2021-20221

Vendordebian, redhat, qemuProductdebian linux, enterprise linux, qemuDiscoveredMay 13, 2021UpdatedNov 21, 2024

An out-of-bounds heap buffer access issue was found in the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulator of QEMU up to and including qemu 4.2.0on aarch64 platform. The issue occurs because while writing an interrupt ID to the controller memory area, it is not masked to be 4 bits wide. It may lead to the said issue while updating controller state fields and their subsequent processing. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.

CVSS v3.1
6 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.33%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
1
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredHIGH
User InteractionNONE
ScopeCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
5 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
May 13, 2021
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Nov 21, 2024
Jun 9, 2026
ubuntu.com reports: USN-8412-1: QEMU vulnerabilities