CVE-2020-11102
QEMU: tulip: OOB access in tulip_copy_tx_buffers
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · February 11, 2020
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in the Tulip NIC emulator built into QEMU. This flaw occurs while copying network data to and from its tx/rx frame buffers, as it does not check frame size against the data length. This flaw allows a remote user or process to crash the QEMU process, resulting in a denial of service or the potential execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.
Statement
This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and 8.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write