CVE-2020-16092

 

Published at: - 11-08-2020 06:15

Last modified: - 15-08-2022 01:15

Total changes: - 2

Description

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1
• https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0006/
• USN-4467-1-Third Party Advisory
• DSA-4760-
• [debian-lts-announce] 20200913 [SECURITY] [DLA 2373-1] qemu security update-
• openSUSE-SU-2020:1664-
• GLSA-202208-27-

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2020-16092

 

CVE

 

Common vulnerabilities & exposures

 

CVSS

 

Common vulnerability scoring system

 

Security

 

Vulnerabilities

 

Exposures