CVE-2020-13759

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

rust-vmm vm-memory before 0.1.1 and 0.2.x before 0.2.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of IP networking) because read_obj and write_obj do not properly access memory. This affects aarch64 (with musl or glibc) and x86_64 (with musl).

Affected products

rust-vmm vm-memory: before 0.1.1; from 0.2.0 before 0.2.1 — fixed in 0.1.1, 0.2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rust-vmm vm-memory 0.1.1, 0.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-memory/issues/93
https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-memory/releases/tag/v0.1.1
https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-memory/releases/tag/v0.2.1
https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-memory/issues/93
https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-memory/releases/tag/v0.1.1
https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-memory/releases/tag/v0.2.1

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