vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2019-20808: QEMU: out-of-bounds read in ati_cursor_define() function in hw/display/ati.c leads to DoS

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 31, 2020
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In QEMU 4.1.0, an out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the ATI VGA implementation. It occurs in the ati_cursor_define() routine while handling MMIO write operations through the ati_mm_write() callback. A malicious guest could abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in a denial of service.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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