CVE-2020-16092

Low

Description

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.

SeverityLow
CVSS3.8
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedAug 11, 2020
First seenAug 11, 2020

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemuv ≤ 5.0.0—
debian debian_linux9.0, 10.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux16.04, 18.04, 20.04—
opensuse leap15.2—

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