CVE-2020-25723

Summary

CVECVE-2020-25723
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-02 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-30 19:19:00 UTC
DescriptionA reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU. It could occur while processing USB requests due to missing handling of DMA memory map failure. A malicious privileged user within the guest may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-617

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2020-25723 QEMU Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 3099-1] qemu security update MLIST lists.debian.org
oss-security - CVE-2020-25723 QEMU: assertion failure through usb_packet_unmap() in hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
1898579 – (CVE-2020-25723) CVE-2020-25723 QEMU: assertion failure through usb_packet_unmap() in hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, 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

  • 159456 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2021-1762)
  • 174920 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1243-1)
  • 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)
  • 174926 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1242-1)
  • 180995 Debian Security Update for qemu (DLA 3099-1)
  • 239177 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2021:0771)
  • 239306 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2021:1762)
  • 352383 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for qemu: ALAS2-2021-1671
  • 377413 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0119)
  • 502353 Alpine Linux Security Update for qemu
  • 750097 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1837-1)
  • 750120 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1893-1)
  • 750124 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1894-1)
  • 750129 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1895-1)
  • 750138 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1918-1)
  • 750149 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1942-1)
  • 750152 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1947-1)
  • 750251 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:0600-1)
  • 750771 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:1942-1)
  • 750827 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:1043-1)
  • 900282 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
  • 902830 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (3643)
  • 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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