qemu — security advisory
A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_CMD_CREATE_MR" command due to improper memory remapping (mremap). This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
- Products
- qemu
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:5.2+dfsg-11
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3582
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_CMD_CREATE_MR" command due to improper memory remapping (mremap). This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3582
qemu
Fixed versions: 1:5.2+dfsg-11
qemu
Fixed versions: 1:5.2+dfsg-11
qemu
Fixed versions: 1:5.2+dfsg-11
Complete source record
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