VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-35505

CVSS score4.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.32%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-05-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0. This issue occurs while handling the 'Information Transfer' command. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-476
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-476

Primary references