Description
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: 2021-03-18
Score: 6.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2623-1 qemu security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3099-1 qemu security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5010-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Qemu Qemu
Redhat Advanced Virtualization Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T16:53:17.483Z

Reserved: 2021-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-3416

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-18T20:15:13.300

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:21:27.260

Link: CVE-2021-3416

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3416 - Bugzilla

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