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CVE-2021-20255

Date: March 9, 2021

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.

Language: C

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CWE-835

Uncontrolled Recursion

CWE-674

CVSS v3

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Scope (S):
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL

CVSS v2

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Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE
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