CVE-2019-20175

NameCVE-2019-20175
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in ide_dma_cb() in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU 2.4.0 through 4.2.0. The guest system can crash the QEMU process in the host system via a special SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND. It hits an assertion that implies that the size of successful DMA transfers there must be a multiple of 512 (the size of a sector). NOTE: a member of the QEMU security team disputes the significance of this issue because a "privileged guest user has many ways to cause similar DoS effect, without triggering this assert.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23vulnerable
stretch (security)1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12vulnerable
bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie1:9.2.0+ds-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusource(unstable)1:5.0-1unimportant

Notes

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01651.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg03869.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg00597.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-11/msg02165.html
Marked unimportant, as negligible security impact (a privileged guest
can trigger similar issues without triggering the specific assert) and
is disputed by QEMU security team.
Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/ed78352a59ea7acf7520d4d47a96b9911bae7fc3 (v5.0.0-rc0)

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