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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35505

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.

Products
qemu
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1:6.0+dfsg-3
CVEs
CVE-2020-35505
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:48 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35505

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 May 2021, 11:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35505

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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