Out-of-bounds Write Affecting qemu package, versions <1:5.0-12


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-QEMU-5694126
  • published22 Jul 2020
  • disclosed28 Jul 2020

Introduced: 22 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15863  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 qemu to version 1:5.0-12 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:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

hw/net/xgmac.c in the XGMAC Ethernet controller in QEMU before 07-20-2020 has a buffer overflow. This occurs during packet transmission and affects the highbank and midway emulated machines. A guest user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential privileged code execution. This was fixed in commit 5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555.

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