Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-project/qemu  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
3.57% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007024
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-7039  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write tcp_emu in tcp_subr.c in libslirp 4.1.0, as used in QEMU 4.2.0, mismanages memory, as demonstrated by IRC DCC commands in EMU_IRC. This can cause a heap-based buffer overflow or other out-of-bounds access which can lead to a DoS or potential execute arbitrary code.