Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-QEMU-1619706
  • published5 Dec 2020
  • disclosed26 Nov 2020

Introduced: 26 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-29129  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Ubuntu.

ncsi.c in libslirp through 4.3.1 has a buffer over-read because it tries to read a certain amount of header data even if that exceeds the total packet length.