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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-03-18T19:53:29

Updated: 2022-09-05T05:06:21

Reserved: 2021-02-25T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-3416

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-18T20:15:13.300

Modified: 2023-02-12T23:41:07.600


Link: CVE-2021-3416

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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