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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DLA-2373-1 | qemu security update |
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DSA-4760-1 | qemu security update |
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EUVD-2020-8059 | 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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USN-4467-1 | QEMU vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T13:37:53.323Z
Reserved: 2020-07-28T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-16092

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Status : Modified
Published: 2020-08-11T16:15:12.477
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:06:45.010
Link: CVE-2020-16092


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