vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-25723: Reachable Assertion

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 2, 2020
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU. It could occur while processing USB requests due to missing handling of DMA memory map failure. A malicious privileged user within the guest may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu
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