msrc_cve-2021-3507
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft
Published
2021-05-02 00:00
Modified
2025-10-01 23:11
Summary
A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including). It could occur in fdctrl_transfer_handler() in hw/block/fdc.c while processing DMA read data transfers from the floppy drive to the guest system. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario, or potential information leakage from the host memory.
Notes
Additional Resources
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Disclaimer
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