CVE-2021-3416

NameCVE-2021-3416
DescriptionA 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2623-1, DLA-3099-1, ELA-392-1
Debian Bugs984448

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23fixed
stretch (security)1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12fixed
bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie1:9.2.0+ds-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusourcejessie1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u20ELA-392-1
qemusourcestretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u14DLA-2623-1
qemusourcebuster1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9DLA-3099-1
qemusource(unstable)1:5.2+dfsg-9984448

Notes

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg07431.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg07484.html
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=e73adfbeec9d4e008630c814759052ed945c3fed
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=331d2ac9ea307c990dc86e6493e8f0c48d14bb33
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=1caff0340f49c93d535c6558a5138d20d475315c
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=705df5466c98f3efdd2b68d3b31dad86858acad7
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=37cee01784ff0df13e5209517e1b3594a5e792d1
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=26194a58f4eb83c5bdf4061a1628508084450ba1
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=99ccfaa1edafd79f7a3a0ff7b58ae4da7c514928
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=5311fb805a4403bba024e83886fa0e7572265de4
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=8c92060d3c0248bd4d515719a35922cd2391b9b4
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=8c552542b81e56ff532dd27ec6e5328954bdda73

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