A flaw was found in vhost-user-gpu of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. An out-of-bounds write vulnerability can allow a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-3546

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-m53p-4wch-f983

Published

May 24, 2022 7:03 PM

Last Modified

August 16, 2022 12:00 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 15, 2025 6:24 AM

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