CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:LCVE-2020-15863
Medium (5.3). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- qemu:qemu
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/22/1
- https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg03497.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg05745.html