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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-08-11T15:55:29

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:37:53.323Z

Reserved: 2020-07-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-16092

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-08-11T16:15:12.477

Modified: 2022-09-30T12:49:34.670

Link: CVE-2020-16092

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-07-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-16092 - Bugzilla