CVE-2020-15863

MediumCVSS 5.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/22/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg03497.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg05745.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00024.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/22/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg03497.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg05745.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4760Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 28, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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