Use-after-free in QEMU - CVE-2020-25084
Published: September 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU46790
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-25084
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: QEMU
Affected software:
QEMU
QEMU
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in USB(xHCI/eHCI) controller emulators of QEMU in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c and hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c files when processing USB packets. A remote user on the guest operating system can send specially crafted data to the controller, trigger a use-after-free error and crash the QEMU process.
How to mitigate CVE-2020-25084
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.