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CVE-2020-35506 (GCVE-0-2020-35506)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-28 10:20 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:02
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a QEMU Affected: qemu 6.0.0
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