CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.0. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2021-3416
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6
EPSS
0.46%
Original NVD 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.
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