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 |
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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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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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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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