CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16092
3.8 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.8 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
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.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 5.0.0)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
• opensuse leap 15.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0006/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0006/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760 Third Party Advisory