CVE-2021-3559 in Red Hat and NetApp Products
Published on May 24, 2021
A flaw was found in libvirt in the virConnectListAllNodeDevices API in versions before 7.0.0. It only affects hosts with a PCI device and driver that supports mediated devices (e.g., GRID driver). This flaw could be used by an unprivileged client with a read-only connection to crash the libvirt daemon by executing the 'nodedev-list' virsh command. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?
The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.
CVE-2021-3559 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.37%
Percentile
58.25%
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