CVE-2020-14415 json
oss_write in audio/ossaudio.c in QEMU before 5.0.0 mishandles a buffer position.
published 2020-08-27 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-6554
- cvss
- 3.3
- version 3.1, NVD
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.5%
- EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
oss_write in audio/ossaudio.c in QEMU before 5.0.0 mishandles a buffer position.
Patch / fix
- qemu qemu 5.0.0
- qemu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:5.0-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14415
- qemu Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.4
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14415
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- qemu Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 5.0.0-r0
alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-14415
Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- usn.ubuntu.com/4467-1/ advisory
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2020-14415 updated cvss 3.8
QEMU: division by zero in oss_write() in audio/ossaudio.c
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm, xen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-guest-agent-win32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-img-ma, qemu-kvm-ma, qemu-kvm-rhev, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tests, qemu-kvm-common, qemu-guest-agent, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kiwi, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tests, qemu-kvm-common, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-pr-helper, qemu-kvm-common, +16 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
+2 more productsfewer
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, qemu-kvm-common-rhev Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, qemu-kvm-common-rhev
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.1 | 3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVD | 2.0 | 2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-369 Divide By Zero
References
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usn.ubuntu.com
/4467-1/
vendor-advisory, patch, third-party-advisory
- git.qemu.org /?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7a4ede0047a8613b0e3b72c9d351038f013dd357
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2020-14415
- NVD CVE-2020-14415
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