Buffer Overflow Affecting qemu package, versions <1:4.1-2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.71% (81st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-546763
- published 6 Feb 2020
- disclosed 6 Feb 2020
Introduced: 6 Feb 2020
CVE-2020-8608 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 1:4.1-2 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 Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
In libslirp 4.1.0, as used in QEMU 4.2.0, tcp_subr.c misuses snprintf return values, leading to a buffer overflow in later code.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8608
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201001-0002/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4733
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-66
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp/commit/68ccb8021a838066f0951d4b2817eb6b6f10a843
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp/-/tags/v4.1.0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00012.html
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/06/2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00007.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-8608
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4283-1/