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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-16092: Security patch for qemu-kvm (ALAS-2021-1488)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-16092: Security patch for qemu-kvm (ALAS-2021-1488)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/11/2020
Created
03/23/2021
Added
03/20/2021
Modified
03/20/2021

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm

References

  • ALAS-2021-1488
  • USN-4467-1
  • CVE-2020-16092

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