Out-of-bounds Read Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [0,5.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007019
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-11947  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 5.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read iscsi_aio_ioctl_cb in block/iscsi.c in QEMU 4.1.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read that may disclose unrelated information from process memory to an attacker.

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