LOW 3.8 Microsoft

CVE-2020-16092

In QEMU through 5.0.0 an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing. This issue affects the e1000e and vmxnet3 network devices. A malicious guest user/process could use this flaw to abort the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service condition in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c.

Microsoft Security Update 2020-Aug: In QEMU through 5.0.0 an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing. This issue affects the e1000e and vmxnet3 network devices. A malicious guest user/process could use this flaw to abort the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service condition in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c.

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Published: 2020-08-11 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-21
This low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.8 was published on 2020-08-11 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 qemu-kvm 4.2.0-13 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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