Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-20221 — cm1 qemu-kvm 4.2.0-33 on CBL Mariner 1.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- cm1 qemu-kvm 4.2.0-33 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 4.2.0-33 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-20221
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.0 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-20221, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).