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CVE-2020-25723 (GCVE-0-2020-25723)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-02 00:52 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:40
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Summary
A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU. It could occur while processing USB requests due to missing handling of DMA memory map failure. A malicious privileged user within the guest may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
Severity
3.2 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a QEMU Affected: qemu 5.2.0
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