Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-20196 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
qemu
debian
CWE-476

Summary

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not initialized with a block device. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Qemu
1
OS
Debian
2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)