CVE-2020-27821 (GCVE-0-2020-27821)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-08 21:33 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:25
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.
Severity
6.0 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-787 - >CWE-122
Assigner
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