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    CVE-2021-3416

    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.

    Published:Feb 24, 2021
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Mar 18, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.00003
    CVSS Score:6

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Qemu
    Product
    Qemu
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Advanced Virtualization
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

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