Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-3416

047910
CVSS 6.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
HIGH
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
qemu
fedoraproject
redhat
debian

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Qemu
341
OS
Fedoraproject
1
OS
Redhat
4
OS
Debian
2