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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-35506: QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-35506: QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/28/2021
Created
08/29/2022
Added
08/16/2022
Modified
08/16/2022

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu

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