vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3735: QEMU: ahci: deadlock issue leads to denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 26, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A deadlock issue was found in the AHCI controller device of QEMU. It occurs on a software reset (ahci_reset_port) while handling a host-to-device Register FIS (Frame Information Structure) packet from the guest. A privileged user inside the guest could use this flaw to hang the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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