A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not initialized with a block device. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2970-1 qemu security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3099-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-7642 A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not initialized with a block device. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5307-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:30:07.781Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-20196

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-26T22:15:07.907

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:06.653

Link: CVE-2021-20196

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-01-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20196 - Bugzilla

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