CVE-2020-16092

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

published August 11, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00377 · 30.5th percentile
Published
2020-08-11T15:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 AUG 15:55Z
    In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing
    cvelistv5