CVE-2021-3929

HIGH
8.2
CVSS Score
Published: August 25, 2022 at 07:36 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:06 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraQEMU

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Severity
HIGH8.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%

Description

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the NVM Express Controller (NVME) emulation in QEMU. This CVE is similar to CVE-2021-3750 and, just like it, when the reentrancy write triggers the reset function nvme_ctrl_reset(), data structs will be freed leading to a use-after-free issue. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition or, potentially, executing arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process on the host.

Affected

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

v < 7.0.0
Affected range stops below 7.0.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.0-rc0 (unaffected)

References (7)

CVSS

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

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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