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CVE-2020-16092
published 2020-08-11

CVE-2020-16092: In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing. This issue affects the e1000e and vmxnet3 network devices. A malicious…

PriorityP414low3.8CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSCCNINAL
EPSS
0.38%
30.3th percentile
In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing. This issue affects the e1000e and vmxnet3 network devices. A malicious guest user/process could use this flaw to abort the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c.

Affected

16 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
debiandebian_linux
debiandebian_linux
debianqemu< qemu 1:5.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)qemu 1:5.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
msrccm1_qemu-kvm_4.2.0-13_on_cbl_mariner_1.0
opensuseleap
qemuqemu<= 5.0.0
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:5.1+dfsg-11:5.1+dfsg-1
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:5.1+dfsg-11:5.1+dfsg-1
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:5.1+dfsg-11:5.1+dfsg-1
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:5.1+dfsg-11:5.1+dfsg-1
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.451:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.45
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.311:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.31
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.41:4.2-3ubuntu6.4

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.13.8LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian3.8LOW
vendor_msrc3.8LOW
vendor_redhat3.8LOW
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