| Name | CVE-2020-15863 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2288-1, DSA-4760-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu (PTS) | bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 | fixed | |
| trixie | 1:9.2.2+ds-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 1:10.0.0~rc1+ds-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | source | stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u10 | DLA-2288-1 | ||
| qemu | source | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 | DSA-4760-1 | ||
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:5.0-12 |
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/22/1
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555