Description
An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations when the guest provides invalid values for the destination display parameters. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
Published: 2022-03-03
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4980-1 qemu security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6567-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0001}

epss

{'score': 9e-05}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:01:07.554Z

Reserved: 2021-07-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-3638

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-03T23:15:08.147

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:22:02.743

Link: CVE-2021-3638

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-07-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3638 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses