CVE-2020-35504

Published: 28 May 2021

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCSI emulation support of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 6.0

Status

Package	Release	Status
qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.37)
	focal	Released (1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17)
	groovy	Released (1:5.0-5ubuntu9.9)
	hirsute	Released (1:5.2+dfsg-9ubuntu3.1)
	impish	Released (1:6.0+dfsg-1~ubuntu3)
	jammy	Released (1:6.0+dfsg-1~ubuntu3)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Needed
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Needed
	Patches: upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=0db895361b8a82e1114372ff9f48 (main) upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=e392255766071c8cac480da3a9ae upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=e5455b8c1c6170c788f3c0fd577c upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c5fef9112b15c4b5494791cdf8bb upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=7b320a8e67a534925048cbabfa51 upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=99545751734035b76bd372c4e721 upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fa7505c154d4d00ad89a747be2ed upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fbc6510e3379fa8f8370bf71198f upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=0ebb5fd80589835153a0c2baa1b8 upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=324c8809897c8c53ad05c3a7147d upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=607206948cacda4a80be5b976dba
qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	precise	Ignored (end of ESM support, was needed)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist

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