CVE-2020-15863
MEDIUM
5.3
Our Analysis: Environment Specific
Our model has classified this vulnerability as relevant to Environment Specific Systems, helping your team prioritize efforts effectively.
Published Date
July 28, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
CVSS Vector
Not Available
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.