CVE-2021-20255

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank Cornelius Aschermann (Ruhr-University Bochum), Sergej Schumilo (Ruhr-University Bochum), and Simon Werner (Ruhr-University Bochum) for reporting this issue.", "bugzilla": {"description": "QEMU: net: eepro100: stack overflow via infinite recursion", "id": "1930646", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1930646"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "3.2", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-835", "details": ["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.", "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."], "name": "CVE-2021-20255", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "qemu-kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-ma", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "virt:8.2/qemu-kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "virt:8.3/qemu-kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "virt:av/qemu-kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:10", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)"}], "public_date": "2021-02-18T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20255\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20255\nhttps://ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de/s/NNWP2GfwzYKeKwE?path=%2Feepro100_stackoverflow1"], "statement": "This issue does not affect the version of the qemu-kvm package shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8.\nThis issue has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.", "threat_severity": "Low"}

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