| Name | CVE-2019-20175 |
| Description | ** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in ide_dma_cb() in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU 2.4.0 through 4.2.0. The guest system can crash the QEMU process in the host system via a special SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND. It hits an assertion that implies that the size of successful DMA transfers there must be a multiple of 512 (the size of a sector). NOTE: a member of the QEMU security team disputes the significance of this issue because a "privileged guest user has many ways to cause similar DoS effect, without triggering this assert." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu (PTS) | jessie | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u12 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u8 | vulnerable | |
| buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u2 | vulnerable | |
| buster (security) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u3 | vulnerable | |
| bullseye, sid | 1:4.2-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant |
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01651.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg03869.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg00597.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg02165.html
Marked unimportant, as negligible security impact (a privileged guest
can trigger similar issues without triggering the specific assert) and
is disputed by QEMU security team.