Reachable Assertion Affecting qemu-kvm-common package, versions <10:1.5.3-156.26.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-QEMUKVMCOMMON-1725779
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • 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 Amazon-Linux:2018.03 qemu-kvm-common to version 10:1.5.3-156.26.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2021-1488.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm-common package and not the qemu-kvm-common package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 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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