CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2020-27821

A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.

2.1 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

6 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.5 / Impact : 4

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope CHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902651 Issue Tracking Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/16/6 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0006/ Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2020-12-08 10:15

Updated : 2022-09-30 07:19

NVD link : CVE-2020-27821

Mitre link : CVE-2020-27821

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-787