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CVE-2021-3392

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while...

3.2 LowFix available

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
High
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Exploit likelihood

0.45%Down 0.6 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 3.2

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Record
CVE-2021-3392
CVSS 3.1
3.2 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0
2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-416
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Record
CVE-2021-3392
Weakness
CWE-416
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-26721 No score

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Record
EUVD-2021-26721
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-466h-jr37-234f 3.2

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while...

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Record
GHSA-466h-jr37-234f
CVSS 3.1
3.2 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness
CWE-416
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2021-3392 3.2

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2021-3392
CVSS 3.1
3.2 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-03
OSVBELL-CVE-2021-3392 3.2

CVE-2021-3392 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2021-3392
CVSS 3.1
3.2 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSV 3.2

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Record
CVE-2021-3392
CVSS 3.1
3.2 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2021-3392 3.2

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3392
CVSS 3.1
3.2 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVOESA-2021-1191 6.0

qemu security update

QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed.

Security Fix(es):

A potential stack overflow via infinite loop issue was found in various NIC emulators of QEMU in versions up to and including 5.2.0. The issue occurs in loopback mode of a NIC wherein reentrant DMA checks get bypassed. A guest user/process may use this flaw to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.(CVE-2021-3416)

The patch for CVE-2020-17380/CVE-2020-25085 was found to be ineffective, thus making QEMU vulnerable to the out-of-bounds read/write access issues previously found in the SDHCI controller emulation code. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. QEMU up to (including) 5.2.0 is affected by this.(CVE-2021-3409)

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.(CVE-2021-3392)

QEMU 5.0.0 has a heap-based Buffer Overflow in flatview_read_continue in exec.c because hw/sd/sdhci.c mishandles a write operation in the SDHC_BLKSIZE case.(CVE-2020-25085)

Record
OESA-2021-1191
CVSS 3.1
6.0 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2021-3392 3.2

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2021-3392
CVSS 3.1
3.2 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-5010-1 No score

qemu vulnerabilities

Lei Sun discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain MMIO operations. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-15469)

Wenxiang Qian discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain ATAPI commands. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2020-29443)

Cheolwoo Myung discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SCSI device emulation. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-35504, CVE-2020-35505, CVE-2021-3392)

Alex Xu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtio-fs shared file system daemon. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to read and write to host devices. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-35517)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulation. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2021-20221)

Alexander Bulekov, Cheolwoo Myung, Sergej Schumilo, Cornelius Aschermann, and Simon Werner discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled e1000 device emulation. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2021-20257)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SDHCI controller emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. In the default installation, when QEMU is used in combination with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2021-3409)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain NIC emulation devices. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2021-3416)

Remy Noel discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB redirector device. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3527)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtio vhost-user GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-3544)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtio vhost-user GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive host information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-3545)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtio vhost-user GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. In the default installation, when QEMU is used in combination with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-3546)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the PVRDMA device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. In the default installation, when QEMU is used in combination with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-3582,…

Record
USN-5010-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
qemu
Alpine:v3.16
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Alpine:v3.17
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Alpine:v3.18
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Alpine:v3.19
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Alpine:v3.20
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Alpine:v3.21
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Alpine:v3.22
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Alpine:v3.23
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Alpine:v3.24
2.10.0 up to 6.0.0-r1
6.0.0-r1
qemu
Debian:12
before 1:5.2+dfsg-10
1:5.2+dfsg-10
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
qemu
Debian:13
before 1:5.2+dfsg-10
1:5.2+dfsg-10
qemu
Debian:14
before 1:5.2+dfsg-10
1:5.2+dfsg-10
qemu
Debian:9
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u14, plus listed versions
1:2.8+dfsg-61:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u11:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u101:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u111:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u12
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1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u131:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u21:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u31:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u41:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u51:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u61:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u71:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u81:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u9
1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u14
qemu
Debian:10
From an advisory covering 35 CVEs
before 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9, plus listed versions
1:3.1+dfsg-81:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u21:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u31:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u41:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u5
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1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u61:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u71:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u81:3.1+dfsg-8~deb10u1
1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9
qemu
openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP1
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.1.0-44.oe1
4.1.0-44.oe1
qemu
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.37, plus listed versions
1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu31:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu41:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu51:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu11:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu2
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1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu41:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu51:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu61:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu71:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.11:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.21:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.31:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.41:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.51:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.61:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.71:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.81:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.91:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.101:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.121:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.131:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.141:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.151:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.171:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.181:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.191:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.201:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.211:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.221:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.231:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.251:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.261:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.271:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.281:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.291:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.311:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.321:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.331:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.341:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.351:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.36
1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.37
qemu
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
before 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17, plus listed versions
1:4.0+dfsg-0ubuntu91:4.0+dfsg-0ubuntu101:4.2-1ubuntu11:4.2-1ubuntu21:4.2-3ubuntu1
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1:4.2-3ubuntu21:4.2-3ubuntu31:4.2-3ubuntu41:4.2-3ubuntu51:4.2-3ubuntu61:4.2-3ubuntu6.11:4.2-3ubuntu6.21:4.2-3ubuntu6.31:4.2-3ubuntu6.41:4.2-3ubuntu6.51:4.2-3ubuntu6.61:4.2-3ubuntu6.71:4.2-3ubuntu6.81:4.2-3ubuntu6.91:4.2-3ubuntu6.101:4.2-3ubuntu6.111:4.2-3ubuntu6.121:4.2-3ubuntu6.141:4.2-3ubuntu6.151:4.2-3ubuntu6.16
1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17
qemu
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 20 CVEs
before 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.37, plus listed versions
1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu31:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu41:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu51:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu11:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu2
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1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu41:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu51:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu61:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu71:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.11:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.21:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.31:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.41:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.51:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.61:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.71:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.81:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.91:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.101:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.121:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.131:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.141:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.151:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.171:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.181:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.191:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.201:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.211:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.221:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.231:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.251:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.261:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.271:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.281:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.291:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.311:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.321:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.331:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.341:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.351:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.36
1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.37
qemu
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 20 CVEs
before 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17, plus listed versions
1:4.0+dfsg-0ubuntu91:4.0+dfsg-0ubuntu101:4.2-1ubuntu11:4.2-1ubuntu21:4.2-3ubuntu1
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1:4.2-3ubuntu21:4.2-3ubuntu31:4.2-3ubuntu41:4.2-3ubuntu51:4.2-3ubuntu61:4.2-3ubuntu6.11:4.2-3ubuntu6.21:4.2-3ubuntu6.31:4.2-3ubuntu6.41:4.2-3ubuntu6.51:4.2-3ubuntu6.61:4.2-3ubuntu6.71:4.2-3ubuntu6.81:4.2-3ubuntu6.91:4.2-3ubuntu6.101:4.2-3ubuntu6.111:4.2-3ubuntu6.121:4.2-3ubuntu6.141:4.2-3ubuntu6.151:4.2-3ubuntu6.16
1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17

History

History
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affected, facts
affected, aliases, referencesOSV
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2021-3392 is a low vulnerability (CVSS 3.2) in Qemu, published March 23, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.45%, the 39th percentile. Fixed in qemu 6.0.0-r1.

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