NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting virt:rhel/qemu-kvm-docs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-VIRT-4401736
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 May 2020

Introduced: 14 May 2020

CVE-2020-13659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm-docs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream virt:rhel/qemu-kvm-docs package and not the virt:rhel/qemu-kvm-docs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

address_space_map in exec.c in QEMU 4.2.0 can trigger a NULL pointer dereference related to BounceBuffer.

CVSS Scores

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