What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-28916

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-12-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

hw/net/e1000e_core.c in QEMU 5.0.0 has an infinite loop via an RX descriptor with a NULL buffer address.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• QEMU: 5.0.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/01/2
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00024.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
• https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg03185.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/01/2
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00024.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
• https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg03185.html

Get alerted when CVE-2020-28916 or the next vulnerability affects your stack