Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-3416
CVE-2021-3416
Description
A potential stack overflow via infinite loop issue was found in various NIC emulators of QEMU in versions up to and including 5.2.0. The issue occurs in loopback mode of a NIC wherein reentrant DMA checks get bypassed. A guest user/process may use this flaw to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
6- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.htmlmitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.htmlmitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0002/mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/26/1mitrex_refsource_MISC
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