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: 2021-03-09T19:14:05

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

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

Link: CVE-2021-20255

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2022-08-05T17:52:13.577

Link: CVE-2021-20255

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2021-20255 - Bugzilla