Low severity · published Aug 11, 2020
CVE-2020-16092
In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing
3.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing. This issue affects the e1000e and vmxnet3 network devices. A malicious guest user/process could use this flaw to abort the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.2 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
through 5.0.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 20.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16092
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16092
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00013.html
Mailing List
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0006/
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