Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-16092 - Reachable Assertion vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 3.8 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
LOW

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Qemu
227
OS
Debian
2
OS
Canonical
3
OS
Opensuse
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)