An integer overflow issue was found in the vmxnet3 NIC emulator of the QEMU for versions up to v5.2.0. It may occur if a guest was to supply invalid values for rx/tx queue size or other NIC parameters. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.
References
Link Resource
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1913873 Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922441 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-02-25T19:09:46

Updated: 2022-09-05T05:06:42

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-20203

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-02-25T20:15:11.597

Modified: 2022-09-30T19:32:37.513


Link: CVE-2021-20203

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