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CVE-2020-35503

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the megasas-gen2 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before and including 6.0. This issue occurs in the megasas_command_cancelled() callback function while dropping a SCSI request. 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.

Score
6.0 medium
Published
2021-06-02
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (2)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
emulators/qemu-cheriqemu-cheri0.d20260108unaddressedbrooks@FreeBSD.org
emulators/qemu-user-staticqemu-user-static3.1.0_16unaddressedemulation@FreeBSD.org

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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 NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the megasas-gen2 SCSI
	host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before and including
	6.0. This issue occurs in the megasas_command_cancelled() callback
	function while dropping a SCSI request. 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.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2020-35503</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35503</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2021-06-02</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>