CVE-2021-20196

Summary

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not initialized with a block device. 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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aqemuvulnerable up to (including) qemu 5.2.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-476: CWE-476

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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