Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting virt-v2v-man-pages-ja package, versions <1:1.42.0-18.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-VIRTV2VMANPAGESJA-3214205
  • published5 Jan 2023
  • disclosed7 Sept 2021

Introduced: 7 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-39257  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 virt-v2v-man-pages-ja to version 1:1.42.0-18.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2022:1759.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream virt-v2v-man-pages-ja package and not the virt-v2v-man-pages-ja package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A crafted NTFS image with an unallocated bitmap can lead to a endless recursive function call chain (starting from ntfs_attr_pwrite), causing stack consumption in NTFS-3G < 2021.8.22.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1