What is CVE-2021-3559?

CVE-2021-3559 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NetApp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-05-24.

How severe is CVE-2021-3559?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in NetApp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility

CVE-2021-3559

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.010 (60.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Netapp Ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility
Redhat Libvirt
N/a Libvirt — versions libvirt 7.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

secalert@redhat.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-3559?: CVE-2021-3559 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NetApp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-05-24.
How severe is CVE-2021-3559?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.