Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package seabios-bin  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-SEABIOSBIN-1477212
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed12 Nov 2020

Introduced: 12 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-28916  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream seabios-bin package and not the seabios-bin package as distributed by RHEL.

hw/net/e1000e_core.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has an infinite loop via an RX descriptor with a NULL buffer address.