Use After Free Affecting qemu-chardev-spice package, versions <5.2.0-103.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-QEMUCHARDEVSPICE-2667064
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed27 Aug 2021

Introduced: 27 Aug 2021

CVE-2020-35506  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 qemu-chardev-spice to version 5.2.0-103.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-chardev-spice package and not the qemu-chardev-spice package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1