low3.8
CVE-2020-16092
In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | through 5.0.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 9.0, 10.0 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Version 15.2 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00013.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0006/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00013.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0006/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760