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CVE-2021-3507

A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including). It could occur in fdctrl_transfer_handler() in hw/block/fdc.c while processing DMA read data transfers from the floppy drive to the guest system. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario, or potential information leakage from the host memory.

  • Published: May 6, 2021
  • Updated: Apr 14, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2021-3507
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.6
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P