vulnerability
Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-16092: QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Aug 11, 2020 | Aug 16, 2022 | Aug 13, 2025 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 11, 2020
Added
Aug 16, 2022
Modified
Aug 13, 2025
Description
In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing. This issue affects the e1000e and vmxnet3 network devices. A malicious guest user/process could use this flaw to abort the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c.
Solution
gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
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