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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2021-3544 json

Several memory leaks were found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0.

published 2021-06-02 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-26855

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Several memory leaks were found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. They exist in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/vhost-user-gpu.c and contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c due to improper release of memory (i.e., free) after effective lifetime.

Patch / fix

  • qemu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:6.1+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3544

  • qemu Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17
  • qemu Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-3544

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  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP3, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 5.2.0-20.1
  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2, SLE Micro 5.0 4.2.1-11.22.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:2213-1SUSE-SU-2021:2212-1

  • qemu openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.1.0-32.1
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.16.2
  • qemu-testsuite openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.16.7
  • qemu-linux-user openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.16.1
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.2.0-20.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1openSUSE-SU-2021:1043-1openSUSE-SU-2021:2213-1

  • qemu Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 6.1.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-3544

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-3544 updated cvss 3.2

QEMU: vhost-user-gpu: multiple memory leaks

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kiwi, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tests, qemu-kvm-common, +9 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-guest-agent-win32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-img-ma, qemu-kvm-ma, qemu-kvm-rhev, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tests, qemu-kvm-common, qemu-guest-agent, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kiwi, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tests, qemu-kvm-common, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-pr-helper, qemu-kvm-common, +16 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, qemu-kvm-common-rhev
    +1 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, qemu-kvm-common-rhev
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a QEMU

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.