QEMU QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

An off-by-one read/write issue was found in the SDHCI device of QEMU

CVE-2022-3872 8.6 - High - November 07, 2022

An off-by-one read/write issue was found in the SDHCI device of QEMU. It occurs when reading/writing the Buffer Data Port Register in sdhci_read_dataport and sdhci_write_dataport, respectively, if data_count == block_size. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition.

off-by-five

An integer underflow issue was found in the QEMU VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages in the extended format

CVE-2022-3165 6.5 - Medium - October 17, 2022

An integer underflow issue was found in the QEMU VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages in the extended format. A malicious client could use this flaw to make QEMU unresponsive by sending a specially crafted payload message, resulting in a denial of service.

Integer underflow

Qemu before 1.6.2 block diver for the various disk image formats used by Bochs and for the QCOW version 2 format, are vulnerable to a possible crash caused by signed data types or a logic error while creating QCOW2 snapshots

CVE-2014-0147 6.2 - Medium - September 29, 2022

Qemu before 1.6.2 block diver for the various disk image formats used by Bochs and for the QCOW version 2 format, are vulnerable to a possible crash caused by signed data types or a logic error while creating QCOW2 snapshots, which leads to incorrectly calling update_refcount() routine.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

QEMU before 2.0.0 block drivers for CLOOP, QCOW2 version 2 and various other image formats are vulnerable to potential memory corruptions, integer/buffer overflows or crash caused by missing input validations which could

CVE-2014-0144 8.6 - High - September 29, 2022

QEMU before 2.0.0 block drivers for CLOOP, QCOW2 version 2 and various other image formats are vulnerable to potential memory corruptions, integer/buffer overflows or crash caused by missing input validations which could allow a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Improper Input Validation

Qemu before 2.0 block driver for Hyper-V VHDX Images is vulnerable to infinite loops and other potential issues when calculating BAT entries

CVE-2014-0148 5.5 - Medium - September 29, 2022

Qemu before 2.0 block driver for Hyper-V VHDX Images is vulnerable to infinite loops and other potential issues when calculating BAT entries, due to missing bounds checks for block_size and logical_sector_size variables. These are used to derive other fields like 'sectors_per_block' etc. A user able to alter the Qemu disk image could ise this flaw to crash the Qemu instance resulting in DoS.

Infinite Loop

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the Tulip device emulation in QEMU

CVE-2022-2962 7.8 - High - September 13, 2022

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the Tulip device emulation in QEMU. When Tulip reads or writes to the rx/tx descriptor or copies the rx/tx frame, it doesn't check whether the destination address is its own MMIO address. This can cause the device to trigger MMIO handlers multiple times, possibly leading to a stack or heap overflow. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Memory Corruption

A flaw was found in the QEMU virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) implementation

CVE-2022-0358 7.8 - High - August 29, 2022

A flaw was found in the QEMU virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) implementation. This flaw is strictly related to CVE-2018-13405. A local guest user can create files in the directories shared by virtio-fs with unintended group ownership in a scenario where a directory is SGID to a certain group and is writable by a user who is not a member of the group. This could allow a malicious unprivileged user inside the guest to gain access to resources accessible to the root group, potentially escalating their privileges within the guest. A malicious local user in the host might also leverage this unexpected executable file created by the guest to escalate their privileges on the host system.

Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation of QEMU

CVE-2022-0216 4.4 - Medium - August 26, 2022

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation of QEMU. The flaw occurs while processing repeated messages to cancel the current SCSI request via the lsi_do_msgout function. This flaw allows a malicious privileged user within the guest to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Dangling pointer

A deadlock issue was found in the AHCI controller device of QEMU

CVE-2021-3735 4.4 - Medium - August 26, 2022

A deadlock issue was found in the AHCI controller device of QEMU. It occurs on a software reset (ahci_reset_port) while handling a host-to-device Register FIS (Frame Information Structure) packet from the guest. A privileged user inside the guest could use this flaw to hang the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Resource Exhaustion

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the NVM Express Controller (NVME) emulation in QEMU

CVE-2021-3929 8.2 - High - August 25, 2022

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the NVM Express Controller (NVME) emulation in QEMU. This CVE is similar to CVE-2021-3750 and, just like it, when the reentrancy write triggers the reset function nvme_ctrl_reset(), data structs will be freed leading to a use-after-free issue. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition or, potentially, executing arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process on the host.

Dangling pointer

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the ACPI code of QEMU

CVE-2021-4158 6 - Medium - August 24, 2022

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the ACPI code of QEMU. A malicious, privileged user within the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition.

NULL Pointer Dereference

An infinite loop flaw was found in the USB xHCI controller emulation of QEMU while computing the length of the Transfer Request Block (TRB) Ring

CVE-2020-14394 3.2 - Low - August 17, 2022

An infinite loop flaw was found in the USB xHCI controller emulation of QEMU while computing the length of the Transfer Request Block (TRB) Ring. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to hang the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Infinite Loop

** DISPUTED ** softmmu/physmem.c in QEMU through 7.0.0

CVE-2022-35414 8.8 - High - July 11, 2022

** DISPUTED ** softmmu/physmem.c in QEMU through 7.0.0 can perform an uninitialized read on the translate_fail path, leading to an io_readx or io_writex crash. NOTE: a third party states that the Non-virtualization Use Case in the qemu.org reference applies here, i.e., "Bugs affecting the non-virtualization use case are not considered security bugs at this time."

Use of Uninitialized Resource

A stack overflow vulnerability was found in the Intel HD Audio device (intel-hda) of QEMU

CVE-2021-3611 6.5 - Medium - May 11, 2022

A stack overflow vulnerability was found in the Intel HD Audio device (intel-hda) of QEMU. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 7.0.0.

Memory Corruption

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the USB EHCI controller emulation of QEMU

CVE-2021-3750 8.2 - High - May 02, 2022

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the USB EHCI controller emulation of QEMU. EHCI does not verify if the Buffer Pointer overlaps with its MMIO region when it transfers the USB packets. Crafted content may be written to the controller's registers and trigger undesirable actions (such as reset) while the device is still transferring packets. This can ultimately lead to a use-after-free issue. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process on the host. This flaw affects QEMU versions before 7.0.0.

Dangling pointer

A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU

CVE-2021-4206 8.2 - High - April 29, 2022

A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. An integer overflow in the cursor_alloc() function can lead to the allocation of a small cursor object followed by a subsequent heap-based buffer overflow. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU

CVE-2021-4207 8.8 - High - April 29, 2022

A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. A double fetch of guest controlled values `cursor->header.width` and `cursor->header.height` can lead to the allocation of a small cursor object followed by a subsequent heap-based buffer overflow. A malicious privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process.

Race Condition

It was discovered that the update for the virt:rhel module in the RHSA-2020:4676 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4676) erratum released as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 failed to include the fix for the qemu-kvm component issue CVE-2020-10756, which was previously corrected in virt:rhel/qemu-kvm

CVE-2021-20295 6.5 - Medium - April 01, 2022

It was discovered that the update for the virt:rhel module in the RHSA-2020:4676 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4676) erratum released as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 failed to include the fix for the qemu-kvm component issue CVE-2020-10756, which was previously corrected in virt:rhel/qemu-kvm via erratum RHSA-2020:4059 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4059). CVE-2021-20295 was assigned to that Red Hat specific security regression. For more details about the original security issue CVE-2020-10756, refer to bug 1835986 or the CVE page: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10756.

Out-of-bounds Read

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device

CVE-2022-1050 8.8 - High - March 29, 2022

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to execute HW commands when shared buffers are not yet allocated, potentially leading to a use-after-free condition.

Dangling pointer

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device

CVE-2021-3582 6.5 - Medium - March 25, 2022

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_CMD_CREATE_MR" command due to improper memory remapping (mremap). This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Buffer Overflow

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU

CVE-2021-3748 8.8 - High - March 23, 2022

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to num_buffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Dangling pointer

A flaw was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU

CVE-2022-26353 7.5 - High - March 16, 2022

A flaw was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This flaw was inadvertently introduced with the fix for CVE-2021-3748, which forgot to unmap the cached virtqueue elements on error, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results. Affected QEMU version: 6.2.0.

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

A flaw was found in the vhost-vsock device of QEMU

CVE-2022-26354 3.2 - Low - March 16, 2022

A flaw was found in the vhost-vsock device of QEMU. In case of error, an invalid element was not detached from the virtqueue before freeing its memory, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results. Affected QEMU versions <= 6.2.0.

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

An infinite loop flaw was found in the e1000 NIC emulator of the QEMU

CVE-2021-20257 6.5 - Medium - March 16, 2022

An infinite loop flaw was found in the e1000 NIC emulator of the QEMU. This issue occurs while processing transmits (tx) descriptors in process_tx_desc if various descriptor fields are initialized with invalid values. This flaw allows a guest to consume CPU cycles on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Infinite Loop

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU

CVE-2021-3638 6.5 - Medium - March 03, 2022

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations when the guest provides invalid values for the destination display parameters. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Memory Corruption

An integer overflow was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0

CVE-2021-3607 6 - Medium - February 24, 2022

An integer overflow was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest due to improper input validation. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to make QEMU allocate a large amount of memory, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0

CVE-2021-3608 6 - Medium - February 24, 2022

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest and may result in a crash of QEMU or cause undefined behavior due to the access of an uninitialized pointer. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

An off-by-one error was found in the SCSI device emulation in QEMU

CVE-2021-3930 6.5 - Medium - February 18, 2022

An off-by-one error was found in the SCSI device emulation in QEMU. It could occur while processing MODE SELECT commands in mode_sense_page() if the 'page' argument was set to MODE_PAGE_ALLS (0x3f). A malicious guest could use this flaw to potentially crash QEMU, resulting in a denial of service condition.

off-by-five

A stack-buffer-overflow was found in QEMU in the NVME component

CVE-2021-3947 5.5 - Medium - February 18, 2022

A stack-buffer-overflow was found in QEMU in the NVME component. The flaw lies in nvme_changed_nslist() where a malicious guest controlling certain input can read out of bounds memory. A malicious user could use this flaw leading to disclosure of sensitive information.

Out-of-bounds Read

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the block mirror layer of QEMU in versions prior to 6.2.0

CVE-2021-4145 6.5 - Medium - January 25, 2022

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the block mirror layer of QEMU in versions prior to 6.2.0. The `self` pointer is dereferenced in mirror_wait_on_conflicts() without ensuring that it's not NULL. A malicious unprivileged user within the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host when writing data reaches the threshold of mirroring node.

NULL Pointer Dereference

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the UAS (USB Attached SCSI) device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.2.0-rc0

CVE-2021-3713 7.4 - High - August 25, 2021

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the UAS (USB Attached SCSI) device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.2.0-rc0. The device uses the guest supplied stream number unchecked, which can lead to out-of-bounds access to the UASDevice->data3 and UASDevice->status3 fields. A malicious guest user could use this flaw to crash QEMU or potentially achieve code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

Memory Corruption

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.1.0-rc2

CVE-2021-3682 8.5 - High - August 05, 2021

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.1.0-rc2. It occurs when dropping packets during a bulk transfer from a SPICE client due to the packet queue being full. A malicious SPICE client could use this flaw to make QEMU call free() with faked heap chunk metadata, resulting in a crash of QEMU or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

A divide-by-zero issue was found in dwc2_handle_packet in hw/usb/hcd-dwc2.c in the hcd-dwc2 USB host controller emulation of QEMU

CVE-2020-27661 6.5 - Medium - June 02, 2021

A divide-by-zero issue was found in dwc2_handle_packet in hw/usb/hcd-dwc2.c in the hcd-dwc2 USB host controller emulation of QEMU. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Divide By Zero

The ahci_commit_buf function in ide/ahci.c in QEMU

CVE-2019-12067 6.5 - Medium - June 02, 2021

The ahci_commit_buf function in ide/ahci.c in QEMU allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference) when the command header 'ad->cur_cmd' is null.

NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the megasas-gen2 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before and including 6.0

CVE-2020-35503 6 - Medium - June 02, 2021

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the megasas-gen2 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before and including 6.0. This issue occurs in the megasas_command_cancelled() callback function while dropping a SCSI request. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

NULL Pointer Dereference

Several memory leaks were found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0

CVE-2021-3544 6.5 - Medium - June 02, 2021

Several memory leaks were found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. They exist in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/vhost-user-gpu.c and contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c due to improper release of memory (i.e., free) after effective lifetime.

Memory Leak

An information disclosure vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0

CVE-2021-3545 6.5 - Medium - June 02, 2021

An information disclosure vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. The flaw exists in virgl_cmd_get_capset_info() in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c and could occur due to the read of uninitialized memory. A malicious guest could exploit this issue to leak memory from the host.

Use of Uninitialized Resource

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0

CVE-2021-3546 8.2 - High - June 02, 2021

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. The flaw occurs while processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command from the guest. It could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Memory Corruption

An user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the wire during migration) could use this flaw to to corrupt QEMU process memory on the (destination) host

CVE-2013-4536 7.8 - High - May 28, 2021

An user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the wire during migration) could use this flaw to to corrupt QEMU process memory on the (destination) host, which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Improper Privilege Management

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0

CVE-2020-35505 4.4 - Medium - May 28, 2021

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0. This issue occurs while handling the 'Information Transfer' command. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

NULL Pointer Dereference

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI)

CVE-2020-35506 6.7 - Medium - May 28, 2021

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Dangling pointer

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCSI emulation support of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0

CVE-2020-35504 6 - Medium - May 28, 2021

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCSI emulation support of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU

CVE-2021-20196 6.5 - Medium - May 26, 2021

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not initialized with a block device. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

NULL Pointer Dereference

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device (usb-redir) of QEMU

CVE-2021-3527 5.5 - Medium - May 26, 2021

A flaw was found in the USB redirector device (usb-redir) of QEMU. Small USB packets are combined into a single, large transfer request, to reduce the overhead and improve performance. The combined size of the bulk transfer is used to dynamically allocate a variable length array (VLA) on the stack without proper validation. Since the total size is not bounded, a malicious guest could use this flaw to influence the array length and cause the QEMU process to perform an excessive allocation on the stack, resulting in a denial of service.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

A race condition flaw was found in the 9pfs server implementation of QEMU up to and including 5.2.0

CVE-2021-20181 7.5 - High - May 13, 2021

A race condition flaw was found in the 9pfs server implementation of QEMU up to and including 5.2.0. This flaw allows a malicious 9p client to cause a use-after-free error, potentially escalating their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability.

Race Condition

An out-of-bounds heap buffer access issue was found in the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulator of QEMU up to and including qemu 4.2.0on aarch64 platform

CVE-2021-20221 6 - Medium - May 13, 2021

An out-of-bounds heap buffer access issue was found in the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller emulator of QEMU up to and including qemu 4.2.0on aarch64 platform. The issue occurs because while writing an interrupt ID to the controller memory area, it is not masked to be 4 bits wide. It may lead to the said issue while updating controller state fields and their subsequent processing. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.

Memory Corruption

A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including)

CVE-2021-3507 6.1 - Medium - May 06, 2021

A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including). It could occur in fdctrl_transfer_handler() in hw/block/fdc.c while processing DMA read data transfers from the floppy drive to the guest system. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario, or potential information leakage from the host memory.

Memory Corruption

The patch for CVE-2020-17380/CVE-2020-25085 was found to be ineffective

CVE-2021-3409 5.7 - Medium - March 23, 2021

The patch for CVE-2020-17380/CVE-2020-25085 was found to be ineffective, thus making QEMU vulnerable to the out-of-bounds read/write access issues previously found in the SDHCI controller emulation code. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. QEMU up to (including) 5.2.0 is affected by this.

Buffer Overflow

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU

CVE-2021-3392 3.2 - Low - March 23, 2021

A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req' from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.

Dangling pointer

A potential stack overflow via infinite loop issue was found in various NIC emulators of QEMU in versions up to and including 5.2.0

CVE-2021-3416 6 - Medium - March 18, 2021

A potential stack overflow via infinite loop issue was found in various NIC emulators of QEMU in versions up to and including 5.2.0. The issue occurs in loopback mode of a NIC wherein reentrant DMA checks get bypassed. A guest user/process may use this flaw to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.

Infinite Loop

A stack overflow via an infinite recursion vulnerability was found in the eepro100 i8255x device emulator of QEMU

CVE-2021-20255 5.5 - Medium - March 09, 2021

A stack overflow via an infinite recursion vulnerability was found in the eepro100 i8255x device emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing controller commands due to a DMA reentry issue. This flaw allows a guest user or process to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Stack Exhaustion

A flaw was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) of QEMU

CVE-2021-20263 3.3 - Low - March 09, 2021

A flaw was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) of QEMU. The new 'xattrmap' option may cause the 'security.capability' xattr in the guest to not drop on file write, potentially leading to a modified, privileged executable in the guest. In rare circumstances, this flaw could be used by a malicious user to elevate their privileges within the guest.

Improper Preservation of Permissions

An integer overflow issue was found in the vmxnet3 NIC emulator of the QEMU for versions up to v5.2.0

CVE-2021-20203 3.2 - Low - February 25, 2021

An integer overflow issue was found in the vmxnet3 NIC emulator of the QEMU for versions up to v5.2.0. It may occur if a guest was to supply invalid values for rx/tx queue size or other NIC parameters. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in QEMU through 5.0.0 in the SDHCI device emulation support

CVE-2020-17380 6.3 - Medium - January 30, 2021

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in QEMU through 5.0.0 in the SDHCI device emulation support. It could occur while doing a multi block SDMA transfer via the sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks() routine in hw/sd/sdhci.c. A guest user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

Memory Corruption

A flaw was found in qemu

CVE-2020-35517 8.2 - High - January 28, 2021

A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.

Improper Privilege Management

ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end in hw/ide/atapi.c in QEMU 5.1.0

CVE-2020-29443 3.9 - Low - January 26, 2021

ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end in hw/ide/atapi.c in QEMU 5.1.0 allows out-of-bounds read access because a buffer index is not validated.

Out-of-bounds Read

In QEMU 4.1.0, an out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the ATI VGA implementation

CVE-2019-20808 6.5 - Medium - December 31, 2020

In QEMU 4.1.0, an out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the ATI VGA implementation. It occurs in the ati_cursor_define() routine while handling MMIO write operations through the ati_mm_write() callback. A malicious guest could abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in a denial of service.

Out-of-bounds Read

A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache

CVE-2020-27821 6 - Medium - December 08, 2020

A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.

Memory Corruption

hw/net/e1000e_core.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has an infinite loop

CVE-2020-28916 5.5 - Medium - December 04, 2020

hw/net/e1000e_core.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has an infinite loop via an RX descriptor with a NULL buffer address.

Infinite Loop

A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU

CVE-2020-25723 3.2 - Low - December 02, 2020

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.

assertion failure

hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has a stack-based buffer over-read

CVE-2020-25624 5 - Medium - November 30, 2020

hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has a stack-based buffer over-read via values obtained from the host controller driver.

Out-of-bounds Read

eth_get_gso_type in net/eth.c in QEMU 4.2.1 allows guest OS users to trigger an assertion failure

CVE-2020-27617 6.5 - Medium - November 06, 2020

eth_get_gso_type in net/eth.c in QEMU 4.2.1 allows guest OS users to trigger an assertion failure. A guest can crash the QEMU process via packet data that lacks a valid Layer 3 protocol.

assertion failure

ati_2d_blt in hw/display/ati_2d.c in QEMU 4.2.1 can encounter an outside-limits situation in a calculation

CVE-2020-27616 6.5 - Medium - November 06, 2020

ati_2d_blt in hw/display/ati_2d.c in QEMU 4.2.1 can encounter an outside-limits situation in a calculation. A guest can crash the QEMU process.

Incorrect Calculation

An issue was discovered in QEMU through 5.1.0

CVE-2020-24352 5.5 - Medium - October 16, 2020

An issue was discovered in QEMU through 5.1.0. An out-of-bounds memory access was found in the ATI VGA device implementation. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine in hw/display/ati_2d.c while handling MMIO write operations through the ati_mm_write() callback. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Buffer Overflow

hw/ide/pci.c in QEMU before 5.1.1 can trigger a NULL pointer dereference

CVE-2020-25743 3.2 - Low - October 06, 2020

hw/ide/pci.c in QEMU before 5.1.1 can trigger a NULL pointer dereference because it lacks a pointer check before an ide_cancel_dma_sync call.

NULL Pointer Dereference

pci_change_irq_level in hw/pci/pci.c in QEMU before 5.1.1 has a NULL pointer dereference

CVE-2020-25742 3.2 - Low - October 06, 2020

pci_change_irq_level in hw/pci/pci.c in QEMU before 5.1.1 has a NULL pointer dereference because pci_get_bus() might not return a valid pointer.

NULL Pointer Dereference

fdctrl_write_data in hw/block/fdc.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has a NULL pointer dereference

CVE-2020-25741 3.2 - Low - October 02, 2020

fdctrl_write_data in hw/block/fdc.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has a NULL pointer dereference via a NULL block pointer for the current drive.

NULL Pointer Dereference

hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has an infinite loop when a TD list has a loop.

CVE-2020-25625 5.3 - Medium - September 25, 2020

hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has an infinite loop when a TD list has a loop.

Infinite Loop

QEMU 5.0.0 has a heap-based Buffer Overflow in flatview_read_continue in exec.c

CVE-2020-25085 5 - Medium - September 25, 2020

QEMU 5.0.0 has a heap-based Buffer Overflow in flatview_read_continue in exec.c because hw/sd/sdhci.c mishandles a write operation in the SDHC_BLKSIZE case.

Memory Corruption

QEMU 5.0.0 has a use-after-free in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c

CVE-2020-25084 3.2 - Low - September 25, 2020

QEMU 5.0.0 has a use-after-free in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c because the usb_packet_map return value is not checked.

Dangling pointer

An out-of-bounds read/write access flaw was found in the USB emulator of the QEMU in versions before 5.2.0

CVE-2020-14364 5 - Medium - August 31, 2020

An out-of-bounds read/write access flaw was found in the USB emulator of the QEMU in versions before 5.2.0. This issue occurs while processing USB packets from a guest when USBDevice 'setup_len' exceeds its 'data_buf[4096]' in the do_token_in, do_token_out routines. This flaw allows a guest user to crash the QEMU process, resulting in a denial of service, or the potential execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

Out-of-bounds Read

In QEMU through 5.0.0, an integer overflow was found in the SM501 display driver implementation

CVE-2020-12829 3.8 - Low - August 31, 2020

In QEMU through 5.0.0, an integer overflow was found in the SM501 display driver implementation. This flaw occurs in the COPY_AREA macro while handling MMIO write operations through the sm501_2d_engine_write() callback. A local attacker could abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process in sm501_2d_operation() in hw/display/sm501.c on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

oss_write in audio/ossaudio.c in QEMU before 5.0.0 mishandles a buffer position.

CVE-2020-14415 3.3 - Low - August 27, 2020

oss_write in audio/ossaudio.c in QEMU before 5.0.0 mishandles a buffer position.

Divide By Zero

In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing

CVE-2020-16092 3.8 - Low - August 11, 2020

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.

assertion failure

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

CVE-2020-15863 5.3 - Medium - July 28, 2020

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.

Memory Corruption

QEMU 4.2.0 has a use-after-free in hw/net/e1000e_core.c

CVE-2020-15859 3.3 - Low - July 21, 2020

QEMU 4.2.0 has a use-after-free in hw/net/e1000e_core.c because a guest OS user can trigger an e1000e packet with the data's address set to the e1000e's MMIO address.

Dangling pointer

In QEMU 4.2.0

CVE-2020-15469 2.3 - Low - July 02, 2020

In QEMU 4.2.0, a MemoryRegionOps object may lack read/write callback methods, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

NULL Pointer Dereference

An assertion failure issue was found in the Network Block Device(NBD) Server in all QEMU versions before QEMU 5.0.1

CVE-2020-10761 5 - Medium - June 09, 2020

An assertion failure issue was found in the Network Block Device(NBD) Server in all QEMU versions before QEMU 5.0.1. This flaw occurs when an nbd-client sends a spec-compliant request that is near the boundary of maximum permitted request length. A remote nbd-client could use this flaw to crash the qemu-nbd server resulting in a denial of service.

assertion failure

A flaw was found in QEMU in the implementation of the Pointer Authentication (PAuth) support for ARM introduced in version 4.0 and fixed in version 5.0.0

CVE-2020-10702 5.5 - Medium - June 04, 2020

A flaw was found in QEMU in the implementation of the Pointer Authentication (PAuth) support for ARM introduced in version 4.0 and fixed in version 5.0.0. A general failure of the signature generation process caused every PAuth-enforced pointer to be signed with the same signature. A local attacker could obtain the signature of a protected pointer and abuse this flaw to bypass PAuth protection for all programs running on QEMU.

hw/pci/pci.c in QEMU 4.2.0

CVE-2020-13791 5.5 - Medium - June 04, 2020

hw/pci/pci.c in QEMU 4.2.0 allows guest OS users to trigger an out-of-bounds access by providing an address near the end of the PCI configuration space.

Out-of-bounds Read

ati-vga in hw/display/ati.c in QEMU 4.2.0

CVE-2020-13800 6 - Medium - June 04, 2020

ati-vga in hw/display/ati.c in QEMU 4.2.0 allows guest OS users to trigger infinite recursion via a crafted mm_index value during an ati_mm_read or ati_mm_write call.

Stack Exhaustion

rom_copy() in hw/core/loader.c in QEMU 4.0 and 4.1.0 does not validate the relationship between two addresses, which

CVE-2020-13765 5.6 - Medium - June 04, 2020

rom_copy() in hw/core/loader.c in QEMU 4.0 and 4.1.0 does not validate the relationship between two addresses, which allows attackers to trigger an invalid memory copy operation.

Memory Corruption

hw/pci/msix.c in QEMU 4.2.0

CVE-2020-13754 6.7 - Medium - June 02, 2020

hw/pci/msix.c in QEMU 4.2.0 allows guest OS users to trigger an out-of-bounds access via a crafted address in an msi-x mmio operation.

Buffer Overflow

address_space_map in exec.c in QEMU 4.2.0

CVE-2020-13659 2.5 - Low - June 02, 2020

address_space_map in exec.c in QEMU 4.2.0 can trigger a NULL pointer dereference related to BounceBuffer.

NULL Pointer Dereference

In QEMU 5.0.0 and earlier, megasas_lookup_frame in hw/scsi/megasas.c has an out-of-bounds read

CVE-2020-13362 3.2 - Low - May 28, 2020

In QEMU 5.0.0 and earlier, megasas_lookup_frame in hw/scsi/megasas.c has an out-of-bounds read via a crafted reply_queue_head field from a guest OS user.

Out-of-bounds Read

In QEMU 5.0.0 and earlier, es1370_transfer_audio in hw/audio/es1370.c does not properly validate the frame count, which

CVE-2020-13361 3.9 - Low - May 28, 2020

In QEMU 5.0.0 and earlier, es1370_transfer_audio in hw/audio/es1370.c does not properly validate the frame count, which allows guest OS users to trigger an out-of-bounds access during an es1370_write() operation.

Memory Corruption

sd_wp_addr in hw/sd/sd.c in QEMU 4.2.0 uses an unvalidated address, which leads to an out-of-bounds read during sdhci_write() operations

CVE-2020-13253 5.5 - Medium - May 27, 2020

sd_wp_addr in hw/sd/sd.c in QEMU 4.2.0 uses an unvalidated address, which leads to an out-of-bounds read during sdhci_write() operations. A guest OS user can crash the QEMU process.

Out-of-bounds Read

A potential DoS flaw was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) implementation of the QEMU version >= v5.0

CVE-2020-10717 6.5 - Medium - May 04, 2020

A potential DoS flaw was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) implementation of the QEMU version >= v5.0. Virtio-fs is meant to share a host file system directory with a guest via virtio-fs device. If the guest opens the maximum number of file descriptors under the shared directory, a denial of service may occur. This flaw allows a guest user/process to cause this denial of service on the host.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

An integer overflow was found in QEMU 4.0.1 through 4.2.0 in the way it implemented ATI VGA emulation

CVE-2020-11869 3.3 - Low - April 27, 2020

An integer overflow was found in QEMU 4.0.1 through 4.2.0 in the way it implemented ATI VGA emulation. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine in hw/display/ati-2d.c while handling MMIO write operations through the ati_mm_write() callback. A malicious guest could abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in a denial of service.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

hw/net/tulip.c in QEMU 4.2.0 has a buffer overflow during the copying of tx/rx buffers

CVE-2020-11102 5.6 - Medium - April 06, 2020

hw/net/tulip.c in QEMU 4.2.0 has a buffer overflow during the copying of tx/rx buffers because the frame size is not validated against the r/w data length.

Memory Corruption

hw/display/bochs-display.c in QEMU 4.0.0 does not ensure a sufficient PCI config space allocation

CVE-2019-15034 5.8 - Medium - March 10, 2020

hw/display/bochs-display.c in QEMU 4.0.0 does not ensure a sufficient PCI config space allocation, leading to a buffer overflow involving the PCIe extended config space.

Classic Buffer Overflow

QEMU 4.1.0 has a memory leak in zrle_compress_data in ui/vnc-enc-zrle.c during a VNC disconnect operation

CVE-2019-20382 3.5 - Low - March 05, 2020

QEMU 4.1.0 has a memory leak in zrle_compress_data in ui/vnc-enc-zrle.c during a VNC disconnect operation because libz is misused, resulting in a situation where memory allocated in deflateInit2 is not freed in deflateEnd.

Memory Leak

An out-of-bounds heap buffer access flaw was found in the way the iSCSI Block driver in QEMU versions 2.12.0 before 4.2.1 handled a response coming

CVE-2020-1711 6 - Medium - February 11, 2020

An out-of-bounds heap buffer access flaw was found in the way the iSCSI Block driver in QEMU versions 2.12.0 before 4.2.1 handled a response coming from an iSCSI server while checking the status of a Logical Address Block (LBA) in an iscsi_co_block_status() routine. A remote user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in a denial of service or potential execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

Memory Corruption

The process_tx_desc function in hw/net/e1000.c in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 does not properly process transmit descriptor data when sending a network packet, which

CVE-2015-6815 3.5 - Low - January 31, 2020

The process_tx_desc function in hw/net/e1000.c in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 does not properly process transmit descriptor data when sending a network packet, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and guest crash) via unspecified vectors.

Infinite Loop

Buffer overflow in the send_control_msg function in hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c in QEMU before 2.4.0

CVE-2015-5745 6.5 - Medium - January 23, 2020

Buffer overflow in the send_control_msg function in hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c in QEMU before 2.4.0 allows guest users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via a crafted virtio control message.

Classic Buffer Overflow

The ne2000_receive function in hw/net/ne2000.c in QEMU before 2.4.0.1

CVE-2015-5278 6.5 - Medium - January 23, 2020

The ne2000_receive function in hw/net/ne2000.c in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to receiving packets.

Infinite Loop

Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0

CVE-2015-5239 6.5 - Medium - January 23, 2020

Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0 allows attachers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a CLIENT_CUT_TEXT message, which triggers an infinite loop.

Infinite Loop

tftp.c in libslirp 4.1.0, as used in QEMU 4.2.0, does not prevent

CVE-2020-7211 7.5 - High - January 21, 2020

tftp.c in libslirp 4.1.0, as used in QEMU 4.2.0, does not prevent ..\ directory traversal on Windows.

Directory traversal

tcp_emu in tcp_subr.c in libslirp 4.1.0, as used in QEMU 4.2.0, mismanages memory, as demonstrated by IRC DCC commands in EMU_IRC

CVE-2020-7039 5.6 - Medium - January 16, 2020

tcp_emu in tcp_subr.c in libslirp 4.1.0, as used in QEMU 4.2.0, mismanages memory, as demonstrated by IRC DCC commands in EMU_IRC. This can cause a heap-based buffer overflow or other out-of-bounds access which can lead to a DoS or potential execute arbitrary code.

Memory Corruption

** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in ide_dma_cb() in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU 2.4.0 through 4.2.0

CVE-2019-20175 7.5 - High - December 31, 2019

** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in ide_dma_cb() in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU 2.4.0 through 4.2.0. The guest system can crash the QEMU process in the host system via a special SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND. It hits an assertion that implies that the size of successful DMA transfers there must be a multiple of 512 (the size of a sector). NOTE: a member of the QEMU security team disputes the significance of this issue because a "privileged guest user has many ways to cause similar DoS effect, without triggering this assert."

Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions