CVE Vulnerability

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.

2.1 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

6 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.5 / Impact : 4

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope CHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932827 Issue Tracking Patch
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/26/1 Mailing List Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0002/ Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:advanced_virtualization:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2021-03-18 08:15

Updated : 2023-02-12 11:41

NVD link : CVE-2021-3416

Mitre link : CVE-2021-3416

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-835