Vigil@nce - QEMU: memory corruption via Registered ROM Loading
August 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, QEMU.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights, denial of service on server, denial of service on
service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 04/06/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can trigger a memory
corruption via Registered ROM Loading of QEMU, in order to trigger
a denial of service, and possibly to run code on the host system.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/QEMU-memory-corruption-via-Registered-ROM-Loading-32430