CVE-2020-15863

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-15863
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-28 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
Descriptionhw/net/xgmac.c in the XGMAC Ethernet controller in QEMU before 07-20-2020 has a buffer overflow. This occurs during packet transmission and affects the highbank and midway emulated machines. A guest user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential privileged code execution. This was fixed in commit 5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 5.1.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 5.1.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commitdiff git.qemu.org
[PATCH] hw/net/xgmac: Fix buffer overflow in xgmac_enet_send() MISC lists.nongnu.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1664-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commitdiff CONFIRM git.qemu.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4760-1 qemu DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2020-15863 QEMU: stack-based overflow in xgmac_enet_send() in hw/net/xgmac.c CONFIRM www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-27) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
USN-4467-1: QEMU vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Re: [PATCH] hw/net/xgmac: Fix buffer overflow in xgmac_enet_send() MISC lists.nongnu.org Mailing List, 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

  • 174921 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1245-1)
  • 174922 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1240-1)
  • 174923 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1241-1)
  • 174924 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1244-1)
  • 502352 Alpine Linux Security Update for qemu
  • 710604 Gentoo Linux QEMU Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-27)
  • 900050 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
  • 903671 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (1960)
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