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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-28916: Infinite Loop

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-28916: Infinite Loop

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/04/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

hw/net/e1000e_core.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has an infinite loop via an RX descriptor with a NULL buffer address.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu

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