CVE-2020-16092

LOW
3.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 11, 2020 at 03:55 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:57 AM UTC
4 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxLeap

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Severity
LOW3.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (8)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00013.html
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-617

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