CVE-2019-20175
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.034 · 89 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (9)
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references (17)
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- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01651.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg03869.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg00597.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg02165.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20175cnnvd
- https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg667396.htmlcnnvd
- https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg667396.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01651.htmlenisa_euvd
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