CVE-2021-3544

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk

Description

Several memory leaks were found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. They exist in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/vhost-user-gpu.c and contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c due to improper release of memory (i.e., free) after effective lifetime.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:6.1+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 1:6.1+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 1:6.1+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u1
bookworm Fixed 1:6.1+dfsg-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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