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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 28, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-15863

CVE-2020-15863

Description

hw/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.

Affected products

34

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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