CVE-2020-15863

NameCVE-2020-15863
Descriptionhw/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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2288-1, DSA-4760-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie1:9.1.1+ds-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusourcestretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u10DLA-2288-1
qemusourcebuster1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8DSA-4760-1
qemusource(unstable)1:5.0-12

Notes

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/22/1
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555

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