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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:advanced_virtualization:*:*:*

Configuration 4 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

05 Sep 2022, 06:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html -

15 Aug 2022, 11:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 -

04 Jan 2022, 16:38

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html - (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (CONFIRM) https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0002/ - (CONFIRM) https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0002/ - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2021-03-18 20:15

Updated : 2024-02-04 21:23


NVD link : CVE-2021-3416

Mitre link : CVE-2021-3416

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-3416


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Products Affected

qemu

  • qemu

fedoraproject

  • fedora

debian

  • debian_linux

redhat

  • enterprise_linux
CWE
CWE-835

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')