Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2020-15863

hw/net/xgmac.c in the XGMAC Ethernet controller in QEMU before 07-20-2020 has a buffer overflow. This occurs during packet transmission and affects the highbank and midway emulated machines. A guest user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential privileged code execution. This was fixed in commit 5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555.

  • Published: Jul 28, 2020
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2020-15863
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.3
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.4
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
qemu / qemu - 5.0.0.x
qemu / qemu 5.1.0-rc0 5.1.0-rc0.x
debian / debian_linux 10.0 10.0.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 16.04 16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 18.04 18.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 20.04 20.04.x