Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-16092 - Reachable Assertion vulnerability in multiple products
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
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/1
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07563.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0006/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27