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CVE-2021-3416

Public on 2021-03-18
Modified on 2024-01-18
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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core qemu 2023-07-17 17:40 ALAS2-2023-2148

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.2 CVSSv3: 3.2, CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H