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medium5.0

CVE-2020-10761

An assertion failure issue was found in the Network Block Device(NBD) Server in all QEMU versions before QEMU 5.0.1.

Impact

An assertion failure issue was found in the Network Block Device(NBD) Server in all QEMU versions before QEMU 5.0.1. This flaw occurs when an nbd-client sends a spec-compliant request that is near the boundary of maximum permitted request length. A remote nbd-client could use this flaw to crash the qemu-nbd server resulting in a denial of service.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
QemuQemu
before 5.0.1
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Version 8.0
OpensuseLeap
Version 15.2
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 16.04, 18.04, 20.04

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