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A 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.
Base Score
6
| Base Score | 6 |
|---|---|
| Vector String | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Base Severity | Medium |
| Version | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector (AV) | LOCAL |
