qemu — security advisory
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.
- Products
- qemu
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:6.0+dfsg-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-35506
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35506
qemu
Fixed versions: 1:6.0+dfsg-3
qemu
Fixed versions: 1:6.0+dfsg-3
qemu
Fixed versions: 1:6.0+dfsg-3
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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