Reachable Assertion Affecting qemu package, versions <1:5.1+dfsg-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-QEMU-1558258
- published 31 Jul 2020
- disclosed 11 Aug 2020
Introduced: 31 Jul 2020
CVE-2020-16092 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12
qemu
to version 1:5.1+dfsg-1 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:12
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-16092
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16092
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0006/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27