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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.

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