Reachable Assertion Affecting qemu package, versions <5.1.0-r1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-QEMU-8488694
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed11 Aug 2020

Introduced: 11 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-16092  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 qemu to version 5.1.0-r1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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