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CVE-2021-20255
published 2021-03-09

CVE-2021-20255: A stack overflow via an infinite recursion vulnerability was found in the eepro100 i8255x device emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing…

PriorityP423medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.41%
33.6th percentile
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.

Affected

10 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiandebian_linux
debianqemu< qemu 1:8.1.0+ds-1 (forky)qemu 1:8.1.0+ds-1 (forky)
msrcazl3_qemu_6.2.0-18_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazl3_qemu_8.2.0-16_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrccbl_mariner_1.0_arm
msrccbl_mariner_1.0_x64
msrccbl_mariner_2.0_arm
msrccbl_mariner_2.0_x64
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:8.1.0+ds-11:8.1.0+ds-1
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:8.1.0+ds-11:8.1.0+ds-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_msrc5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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