Name | CVE-2020-27821 |
Description | 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-3099-1 |
Debian Bugs | 977616 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
qemu (PTS) | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 | vulnerable |
buster (security) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10 | fixed | |
bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed | |
bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-4 | fixed | |
sid | 1:7.2+dfsg-5 | 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 | (not affected) | |||
qemu | source | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9 | DLA-3099-1 | ||
qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:5.2+dfsg-3 | 977616 |
[stretch] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902651
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4bfb024bc76973d40a359476dc0291f46e435442
Introduced by: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=48564041a73adbbff52834f9edbe3806fceefab7 (v3.0)