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CVE-2021-20255

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20255

CGA ID

CGA-cc5p-wg7h-qqfv

Severity

5.5

Medium

CVSS V3

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.

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