Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

CVE-2020-25707

Public on 2020-12-14
Modified on 2021-06-22
Description

An infinite loop flaw was found in the e1000e NIC emulation code of QEMU. This issue occurs in the e1000e_write_packet_to_guest() routine while processing bogus RX descriptor data transmitted by the guest. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Severity
Low
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core qemu 2021-06-16 20:37 ALAS2-2021-1671

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 2.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L