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HistoryMar 16, 2022 - 3:15 p.m.

CVE-2021-20257

2022-03-1615:15:00
Alpine Linux Development Team
security.alpinelinux.org
23

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.7%

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Alpine3.15-communitynoarchqemu< 6.1.1-r0UNKNOWN