ghsa-j586-x8f6-9xf2
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-03-17 00:00
Modified
2022-03-23 00:00
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

An infinite loop flaw was found in the e1000 NIC emulator of the QEMU. This issue occurs while processing transmits (tx) descriptors in process_tx_desc if various descriptor fields are initialized with invalid values. This flaw allows a guest to consume CPU cycles on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-20257"
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  "id": "GHSA-j586-x8f6-9xf2",
  "modified": "2022-03-23T00:00:33Z",
  "published": "2022-03-17T00:00:43Z",
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