CVE-2020-15859

LOW

QEMU 4.2.0 - Use-After-Free in e1000e Packet Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1886362
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg05304.html
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/21/3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00024.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 33.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
qemu/qemu 4.2.0
Published Jul 21, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026