CVE-2020-1983
Public on 2020-04-22
Modified on 2020-11-16
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in the SLiRP networking implementation of the QEMU emulator. Specifically, this flaw occurs in the ip_reass() routine while reassembling incoming IP fragments whose combined size is bigger than 65k. This flaw allows an attacker to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
Severity
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | qemu | 2020-09-01 | ALAS2-2020-1485 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 1 | qemu-kvm | 2020-11-14 | ALAS-2020-1449 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |