Attacker Value
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Exploitability
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2020-16092

Disclosure Date: August 11, 2020 •
CVE-2020-16092 CVSS v3 Base Score: 3.8
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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.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
3.8 Low
Impact Score:
1.4
Exploitability Score:
2
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Changed
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
Low

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
n/a
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • canonical,
  • debian,
  • opensuse,
  • qemu

Products

  • debian linux 10.0,
  • debian linux 9.0,
  • leap 15.2,
  • qemu,
  • ubuntu linux 16.04,
  • ubuntu linux 18.04,
  • ubuntu linux 20.04
Technical Analysis