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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-13765: Security patch for qemu-kvm (ALAS-2021-1488)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-13765: Security patch for qemu-kvm (ALAS-2021-1488)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/04/2020
Created
03/23/2021
Added
03/20/2021
Modified
03/20/2021

Description

rom_copy() in hw/core/loader.c in QEMU 4.0 and 4.1.0 does not validate the relationship between two addresses, which allows attackers to trigger an invalid memory copy operation.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm

References

  • ALAS-2021-1488
  • USN-4467-1
  • CVE-2020-13765

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