CVE-2020-15863

hw/net/xgmac.c in the XGMAC Ethernet controller in QEMU before 07-20-2020 has a buffer overflow

published July 28, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

hw/net/xgmac.c in the XGMAC Ethernet controller in QEMU before 07-20-2020 has a buffer overflow. This occurs during packet transmission and affects the highbank and midway emulated machines. A guest user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential privileged code execution. This was fixed in commit 5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00477 · 40.2th percentile
Published
2020-07-28T15:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 JUL 15:40Z
    hw/net/xgmac.c in the XGMAC Ethernet controller in QEMU before 07-20-2020 has a buffer overflow
    cvelistv5