CVE details
CVE-2020-25723
A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU. It could occur while processing USB requests due to missing handling of DMA memory map failure. A malicious privileged user within the guest may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
Affected ports (2)
| Port | Package | Version | Status | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| emulators/qemu-cheri | qemu-cheri | 0.d20260108 | unaddressed | brooks@FreeBSD.org |
| emulators/qemu-user-static | qemu-user-static | 3.1.0_16 | unaddressed | emulation@FreeBSD.org |
Template for a VuXML entry
Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.
<vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
<topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
<affects>
<package>
<name>qemu-cheri</name>
<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
</package>
<package>
<name>qemu-user-static</name>
<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code
of QEMU. It could occur while processing USB requests due to missing
handling of DMA memory map failure. A malicious privileged user within
the guest may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and crash the
QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2020-25723</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25723</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2020-12-02</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-25</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>