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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932827

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0002/

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/26/1

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3