NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions <4.2.1-11.4.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-QEMUGUESTAGENT-2706214
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2020

Introduced: 23 Jul 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 qemu-guest-agent to version 4.2.1-11.4.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent package and not the qemu-guest-agent package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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 Base Scores

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