SB2020052709 - Denial of service in QEMU
Published: May 27, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020052709
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13253)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the SD Memory Card emulator while performing block write commands via sdhci_write() in QEMU. A remote user of guest operating system can trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the QEMU process.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.