CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2021-20257
Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 30% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- qemu:qemu
- redhat:codeready_linux_builder
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian
- redhat:openstack_platform
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1930087
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3de46e6fc489c52c9431a8a832ad8170a7569bd8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg07428.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27