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CVE-2021-3682
HIGH · CVSS 8.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-08-05T20:15:09.963 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:05:33.660

Summary

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.1.0-rc2. It occurs when dropping packets during a bulk transfer from a SPICE client due to the packet queue being full. A malicious SPICE client could use this flaw to make QEMU call free() with faked heap chunk metadata, resulting in a crash of QEMU or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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