A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-12-08T21:33:02

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:25:42.445Z

Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-27821

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-08T22:15:18.587

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:21:02.087

Link: CVE-2020-27821

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-12-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-27821 - Bugzilla