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Debian: CVE-2020-25723: qemu -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-25723: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/01/2020
Created
12/02/2020
Added
12/01/2020
Modified
01/04/2021

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(s)

  • debian-upgrade-qemu

References

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