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CVE-2020-16092

In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing.

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Summary

In 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.

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Affected versions

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    Version range not reported

References 8

lists.nongnu.org

openwall.com

security.netapp.com

usn.ubuntu.com

debian.org

lists.debian.org

lists.opensuse.org

security.gentoo.org