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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-15863

hw/net/xgmac.c in the XGMAC Ethernet controller in QEMU before 07-20-2020 has a buffer overflow.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.46%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.46%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.46% probability · 39th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
qemu/qemu · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.