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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Information
Published : 2021-03-18 20:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 06:21
NVD link : CVE-2021-3416
Mitre link : CVE-2021-3416
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-3416
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Products Affected
qemu
- qemu
redhat
- enterprise_linux
debian
- debian_linux
fedoraproject
- fedora
CWE
CWE-835
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')