CyberRota Analysis
This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2021-3592
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.8
EPSS
0.33%
Original NVD Description
An invalid pointer initialization issue was found in the SLiRP networking implementation of QEMU. The flaw exists in the bootp_input() function and could occur while processing a udp packet that is smaller than the size of the 'bootp_t' structure. A malicious guest could use this flaw to leak 10 bytes of uninitialized heap memory from the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects libslirp versions prior to 4.6.0.
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