CVE-2019-20175

Summary

CVECVE-2019-20175
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-12-31 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:08:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in ide_dma_cb() in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU 2.4.0 through 4.2.0. The guest system can crash the QEMU process in the host system via a special SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND. It hits an assertion that implies that the size of successful DMA transfers there must be a multiple of 512 (the size of a sector). NOTE: a member of the QEMU security team disputes the significance of this issue because a "privileged guest user has many ways to cause similar DoS effect, without triggering this assert."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-754

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Qemu-devel] [QEMU-SECURITY] ide: fix assertion in ide_dma_cb() to preve MISC lists.nongnu.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[PATCH v3 0/2] ide: Fix incorrect handling of some PRDTs and add the corresponding unit-test www.mail-archive.com
[PATCH v2 1/1] ide: check DMA transfer size in ide_dma_cb() to prevent q MISC lists.nongnu.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [QEMU-SECURITY] ide: fix assertion in ide_ MISC lists.nongnu.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Re: [QEMU-SECURITY] ide: fix assertion in ide_dma_cb() to prevent qemu D MISC lists.nongnu.org Third Party Advisory
[PATCH v3 0/2] ide: Fix incorrect handling of some PRDTs and add the corresponding unit-test MISC www.mail-archive.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900050 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
  • 903059 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (1967)
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