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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 11, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-16092

CVE-2020-16092

Description

In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing. This issue affects the e1000e and vmxnet3 network devices. A malicious guest user/process could use this flaw to abort the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c.

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