vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-20255: Infinite Loop

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 9, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jan 5, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu
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