CVE-2021-3546

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU. The flaw occurs while processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command from the guest. It could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

This issue does not affect the versions of qemu-kvm as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and 8, as Virgl was not enabled in these versions. Support for Virgl was enabled as technical preview in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization 8.2, and later disabled in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization 8.3.

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