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.
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2623-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-7693 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:37:23.158Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-20255

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-09T20:15:13.133

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:13.340

Link: CVE-2021-20255

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-02-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20255 - Bugzilla

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