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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-15859: QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 21, 2020
Added
Aug 16, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

QEMU 4.2.0 has a use-after-free in hw/net/e1000e_core.c because a guest OS user can trigger an e1000e packet with the data's address set to the e1000e's MMIO address.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
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