Vigil@nce - QEMU: memory corruption via USB Emulator
October 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerabilities-watch-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: XenServer, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, QEMU,
RHEL, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu, Xen.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, denial of service on
server, denial of service on service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 24/08/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can trigger a memory
corruption via USB Emulator of QEMU, in order to trigger a denial
of service, and possibly to run code on the host system.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/QEMU-memory-corruption-via-USB-Emulator-33141