PT-2020-6485
CVE-2020-25723
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Published
2020-11-18
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Updated
2026-10-31
Description by
CVSS 3.1
3.2
LowMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
QEMU (affected versions not specified)
Description
A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU. It could occur while processing USB requests due to missing handling of DMA memory map failure. A malicious privileged user within the guest may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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