Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting qemu package, versions <5.0.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-QEMU-8488909
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed4 Jun 2020

Introduced: 4 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-13800  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 qemu to version 5.0.0-r0 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.

ati-vga in hw/display/ati.c in QEMU 4.2.0 allows guest OS users to trigger infinite recursion via a crafted mm_index value during an ati_mm_read or ati_mm_write call.

CVSS Scores

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