Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-3527 — 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-2021-3527
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 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
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.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-3527, 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).