CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.0. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2021-20221
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6
EPSS
0.33%
Original NVD Description
An out-of-bounds heap buffer access issue was found in the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulator of QEMU up to and including qemu 4.2.0on aarch64 platform. The issue occurs because while writing an interrupt ID to the controller memory area, it is not masked to be 4 bits wide. It may lead to the said issue while updating controller state fields and their subsequent processing. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.
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