CVE-2020-16092
Published: 11 August 2020
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.
Priority
Low
CVSS 3 base score: 3.8
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Released
(1:4.2-3ubuntu6.4)
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.31)
|
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
|
Patches: Upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=035e69b063835a5fd23cacabd63690a3d84532a8 |
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|
qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
|
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