Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-20257 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An infinite loop flaw was found in the e1000 NIC emulator of the QEMU. This issue occurs while processing transmits (tx) descriptors in process_tx_desc if various descriptor fields are initialized with invalid values. This flaw allows a guest to consume CPU cycles on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg07428.html
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3de46e6fc489c52c9431a8a832ad8170a7569bd8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1930087
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/25/2
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html