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OESA-2021-1128 (CVE-2020-29443)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2021-04-07 11:04 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:04 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
qemu security update
Details

QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed. QEMU has two operating modes: Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for example a PC), including one or several processors and various peripherals. It can be used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or to debug system code. User mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. It can be used to launch the Wine Windows API emulator (https://www.winehq.org) or to ease cross-compilation and cross-debugging. You can refer to https://www.qemu.org for more infortmation.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2020-29443)

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.(CVE-2021-20203)

Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
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    "severity": "Medium"
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  "details": "QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed.  QEMU has two operating modes:     Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for example a PC),    including one or several processors and various peripherals. It can be used to launch    different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or to debug system code.     User mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU.    It can be used to launch the Wine Windows API emulator (https://www.winehq.org) or to ease    cross-compilation and cross-debugging. You can refer to https://www.qemu.org for more infortmation.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nide_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.(CVE-2020-29443)\r\n\r\nAn 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.(CVE-2021-20203)",
  "id": "OESA-2021-1128",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:04:22Z",
  "published": "2021-04-07T11:04:22Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2021-1128"
    },
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29443"
    },
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  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "qemu security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2020-29443",
    "CVE-2021-20203"
  ]
}



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