CVE-2020-17380

MEDIUM

QEMU < 5.0.0 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in SDHCI Device Emulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in QEMU through 5.0.0 in the SDHCI device emulation support. It could occur while doing a multi block SDMA transfer via the sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks() routine in hw/sd/sdhci.c. A guest user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process on the host.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1862167
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg01175.html
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/1
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0003/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3
EPSS 0.0030
EPSS Percentile 53.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
qemu/qemu < 5.0.0
Published Jan 30, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026