CVE-2020-35504
Moderate
CVE-2020-35504
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCSI emulation support of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0. 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.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
May 28, 2021
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
197 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-35504
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A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCSI emulation support of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0. 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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/16/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1909766
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210713-0006/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/16/3