medium6.0
CVE-2020-27821
A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache.
Impact
A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | before 5.2.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 10.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/16/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902651
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0006/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/16/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902651
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0006/