Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-20255 — CBL Mariner
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- CBL Mariner 1.0 ARM
- CBL Mariner 1.0 x64
- CBL Mariner 2.0 ARM
- CBL Mariner 2.0 x64
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | CBL-Mariner | 4.2.0-27 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-20255
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-20255, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).