NULL pointer dereference in QEMU - CVE-2019-5008

 

NULL pointer dereference in QEMU - CVE-2019-5008

Published: September 2, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU20500
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5008
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in "hw/sparc64/sun4u.c". A remote attacker can trigger denial of service conditions via a device driver.


Affected software

QEMU
Opensuse
Fedora
qemu

How to mitigate CVE-2019-5008

Install update from vendor's website.

QEMU - update to 4.0.0
qemu - addressed in versions 3.0.1-4.fc29, 3.1.0-9.fc30

External References

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