CVE-2020-16092

Summary

CVECVE-2020-16092
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-08-11 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-30 12:49:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-617

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 Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE-2020-16092 QEMU: reachable assertion failure in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment() in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[PATCH 0/2] assertion failure in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment() in hw/net MISC lists.nongnu.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1664-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE-2020-16092 QEMU Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4760-1 qemu DEBIAN www.debian.org
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
[SECURITY] [DLA 2373-1] qemu security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159456 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2021-1762)
  • 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)
  • 239166 Red Hat Update for qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2021:0934)
  • 239306 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2021:1762)
  • 352242 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for qemu-kvm: ALAS-2021-1488
  • 352251 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for qemu: ALAS2-2021-1617
  • 377247 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm-ma (ALINUX2-SA-2021:0007)
  • 377413 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0119)
  • 377426 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm (ALINUX2-SA-2021:0008)
  • 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
  • 903498 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (1950)
  • 940118 AlmaLinux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALSA-2021:1762)
  • 960265 Rocky Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RLSA-2021:1762)
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