CVE-2021-3748

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 23, 2022 at 07:46 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:05 AM UTC
6 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraUbuntu Linux

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to num_buffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 0.10.00.10.0 ≤ v < 6.2.0
Affected range stops below 6.2.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (8)

x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998514
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00002.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg00388.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3748

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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