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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2021-03-18T19:53:29
Updated: 2024-08-03T16:53:17.483Z
Reserved: 2021-02-25T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-3416
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-03-18T20:15:13.300
Modified: 2023-02-12T23:41:07.600
Link: CVE-2021-3416
Redhat