CVE-2020-24352

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 16, 2020 at 05:05 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:05 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQEMU

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

An issue was discovered in QEMU through 5.1.0. An out-of-bounds memory access was found in the ATI VGA device implementation. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine in hw/display/ati_2d.c while handling MMIO write operations through the ati_mm_write() callback. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected

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

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847584
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git

CVSS

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

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125CWE-787

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