NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [0,5.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007136
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Oct 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-25741  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 5.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference fdctrl_write_data in hw/block/fdc.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has a NULL pointer dereference via a NULL block pointer for the current drive.

CVSS Scores

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