Tianocore EDK II DxeCore recursion

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Tianocore EDK II. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component DxeCore. The manipulation results in recursion. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2021-28210. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Tianocore EDK II (unknown version). Affected is an unknown code block of the component DxeCore. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a recursion vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-674. The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack. This is going to have an impact on availability.

The weakness was released 06/12/2021. The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.tianocore.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2021-28210. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208691 (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : EDK II vulnerabilities (USN-7060-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208691). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Recursion
CWE: CWE-674 / CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Nessus ID: 208691
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : EDK II vulnerabilities (USN-7060-1)

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

03/12/2021 🔍
06/12/2021 +91 days 🔍
06/12/2021 +0 days 🔍
10/11/2024 +1216 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugzilla.tianocore.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2021-28210 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2021-28210
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-176916

Entryinfo

Created: 06/12/2021 07:24
Updated: 10/11/2024 01:40
Changes: 06/12/2021 07:24 (35), 06/14/2021 09:13 (2), 10/11/2024 01:40 (16)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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