CVE-2021-3416
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CVE-2021-3416 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6/10 on the CVSS scale. 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. EPSS estimates a 0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | <= 5.2.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 33 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 6.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 7.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 8.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 9.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 10.0 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932827Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0002/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/26/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932827Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0002/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/26/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Timeline
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- Status
- Modified
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