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CVE-2020-27821
published 2020-12-08

CVE-2020-27821: A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write…

PriorityP423medium6CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRHUINSCCNINAH
EPSS
0.36%
28.6th percentile
A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.

Affected

12 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiandebian_linux
debianqemu< qemu 1:5.2+dfsg-3 (bookworm)qemu 1:5.2+dfsg-3 (bookworm)
msrccm1_qemu-kvm_4.2.0-23_on_cbl_mariner_1.0
qemuqemu< 5.2.05.2.0
qemuqemu
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:5.2+dfsg-31:5.2+dfsg-3
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:5.2+dfsg-31:5.2+dfsg-3
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:5.2+dfsg-31:5.2+dfsg-3
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:5.2+dfsg-31:5.2+dfsg-3
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.491:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.351:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35
qemuqemu>= 0 < 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.121:4.2-3ubuntu6.12

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.0MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv6.0MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.0MEDIUM
vendor_msrc6.0MEDIUM
vendor_redhat6.0MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu3.8LOW
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