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CVE-2021-28210

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Jun 11, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.8 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28210
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/674.html

An unlimited recursion in DxeCore in EDK II.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Edk2 Tianocore * 202008 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat edk2-0:20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8 *
Edk2 Ubuntu bionic *
Edk2 Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Edk2 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Edk2 Ubuntu focal *
Edk2 Ubuntu groovy *
Edk2 Ubuntu trusty *
Edk2 Ubuntu upstream *
Edk2 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References

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