Unrated
A stack overflow via an infinite recursion vulnerability was found in the eepro100 i8255x device emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing...
CVE-2021-20255
First seen on SecPulse
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20255 qemu
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2021-20255 qemu
Original description The description as published by the source.
A stack overflow via an infinite recursion vulnerability was found in the eepro100 i8255x device emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing controller commands due to a DMA reentry issue. This flaw allows a guest user or process to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
References
- advisory lists.debian.org
- advisory ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de
- advisory security.netapp.com
- patch bugzilla.redhat.com
- patch openwall.com