Alpine: multiple qemu packages: security update to 6.0.0-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400223

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- A stack overflow via an infinite recursion vulnerability was found in the eepro100 i8255x device emulator
of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing controller commands due to a DMA reentry issue. This flaw
allows a guest user or process to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a
denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-20255)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400223

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20255

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20255

IAVB: 2020-B-0075-S

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