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CVE-2018-20815

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In QEMU 3.1.0, load_device_tree in device_tree.c calls the deprecated load_image function, which has a buffer overflow risk.

Affected products

• QEMU: 3.1.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1667
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1723
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1743
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1881
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1968
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2507
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2553
• https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=da885fe1ee8b4589047484bd7fa05a4905b52b17
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BOE3PVFPMWMXV3DGP2R3XIHAF2ZQU3FS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RVDHJB2QKXNDU7OFXIHIL5O5VN5QCSZL/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/41
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4506

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