What the vulnerability does

01Description

An user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the wire during migration) could use this flaw to to corrupt QEMU process memory on the (destination) host, which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 28, 2021 CVE published
August 6, 2024 Record updated

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