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CVE-2019-20175
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2019-12-31 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-754
Description
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.
Affected products
- QEMU: from 2.4.0 through 4.2.0
References
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01651.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg03869.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg00597.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg02165.html
- https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg667396.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01651.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg03869.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg00597.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg02165.html
- https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg667396.html
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