Tag: QEMU VM Escape Vulnerability

Vulnerability Description On August 24, QEMU released a security patch to fix a VM escape vulnerability (CVE-2020-14364) which is the result of an out-of-bounds read/write access issue in the USB emulator in QEMU. This vulnerability resides in ./hw/usb/core.c. When the program handles USB packets from a guest, this vulnerability is...

Overview Recently, a security researcher disclosed a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2019-14378) in the SLiRP networking backend in the QEMU emulator. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the QEMU process on a host machine, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of...