vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-3416: Infinite Loop
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 18, 2021 | Aug 22, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 18, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Oct 2, 2024
Description
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu
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