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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2021-3507

DiscoveredMay 6, 2021UpdatedNov 21, 2024

A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including). It could occur in fdctrl_transfer_handler() in hw/block/fdc.c while processing DMA read data transfers from the floppy drive to the guest system. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario, or potential information leakage from the host memory.

CVSS v3.1
6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.49%
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 RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityHIGH
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityLOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
Connections
2 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
May 6, 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