Out-of-bounds Read Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,5.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007015
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 May 2020

CVE-2020-13253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 5.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read sd_wp_addr in hw/sd/sd.c in QEMU 4.2.0 uses an unvalidated address, which leads to an out-of-bounds read during sdhci_write() operations. A guest OS user can crash the QEMU process.

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