Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published May 28, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-35505
CVE-2020-35505
Description
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0. This issue occurs while handling the 'Information Transfer' command. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Affected products
33- osv-coords26 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu-linux-user&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu-testsuite&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.0pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1+ 25 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-11.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-80.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-80.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-80.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.2-70.59.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.2-70.59.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-11.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-11.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-103.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-11.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-103.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.73.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.2-5.40.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-57.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-80.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-80.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.2-70.59.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.2-5.40.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-57.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.2-70.59.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-80.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.2-5.40.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.2-5.40.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/16/3nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/16/3nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210713-0006/nvdThird Party Advisory
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