| Name | CVE-2021-3507 |
| Description | 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. |
| 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, ELA-705-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 987410 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.1.1+ds-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | jessie | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23 | | ELA-705-1 | |
| qemu | source | stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u18 | | ELA-705-1 | |
| qemu | source | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9 | | DLA-3099-1 | |
| qemu | source | bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | | | |
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:7.1+dfsg-1 | | | 987410 |
Notes
[stretch] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951118
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/defac5e2fbddf8423a354ff0454283a2115e1367 (v7.1.0-rc0)
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/46609b90d9e3a6304def11038a76b58ff43f77bc (v7.1.0-rc0)