| Name | CVE-2021-3608 |
| Description | A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest and may result in a crash of QEMU or cause undefined behavior due to the access of an uninitialized pointer. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3099-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 990563 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u6 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:8.2.4+ds-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:9.0.2+ds-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9 | | DLA-3099-1 | |
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11 | | | 990563 |
Notes
[stretch] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973383
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=66ae37d8cc313f89272e711174a846a229bcdbd3