Bug 1919210 (CVE-2021-20196) - CVE-2021-20196 QEMU: block: fdc: null pointer dereference may lead to guest crash
Summary: CVE-2021-20196 QEMU: block: fdc: null pointer dereference may lead to guest c...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-20196
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1919532 1919533 1921546 1921547 1921548 1921549 1929016 1929017 1929019 1929020 1944624 2028980
Blocks: 1909094
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-01-22 12:02 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2022-05-10 13:16 UTC (History)
34 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2022-02-02 10:01:43 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:0325 0 None None None 2022-01-31 15:17:32 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:0397 0 None None None 2022-02-02 08:47:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:1759 0 None None None 2022-05-10 13:16:41 UTC

Description Prasad Pandit 2021-01-22 12:02:50 UTC 
A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the Floopy disk emulator of QEMU. It could occur while processing read/write ioport commands, if the selected Floopy drive is not initialised with a block device. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05986.html
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2021-01-22 12:02:55 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Gaoning Pan (Zhejiang University & Ant Security Light-Year Lab)
Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2021-01-23 13:12:50 UTC 
External References:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1912780
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/28/1
Comment 4 Prasad Pandit 2021-01-23 13:13:22 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1919532]


Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1919533]
Comment 10 RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2021-02-22 18:54:28 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the version of the qemu-kvm package shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and 8. Future qemu-kvm package updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8 may address this issue.

This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 & 6. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2022-01-31 15:17:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.4.0.EUS

Via RHSA-2022:0325 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0325
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2022-02-02 08:47:52 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.5.0.Z

Via RHSA-2022:0397 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0397
Comment 16 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-02-02 10:01:40 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-20196
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 13:16:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:1759 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1759
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