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medium 5.0

CVE-2020-25085 json

QEMU 5.0.0 has a heap-based Buffer Overflow in flatview_read_continue in exec.c because hw/sd/sdhci.c mishandles a write operation in the S…

published 2020-09-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-17777

cvss
5.0
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

QEMU 5.0.0 has a heap-based Buffer Overflow in flatview_read_continue in exec.c because hw/sd/sdhci.c mishandles a write operation in the SDHC_BLKSIZE case.

Patch / fix

  • qemu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:5.2+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25085

  • qemu Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.48
  • qemu Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.34
  • qemu Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.10

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25085

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 SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 3.1.1.1-66.1
  • qemu SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLES 15 SP1-BCL +6 more 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP3, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 5.2.0-17.1
  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2, SLE Micro 5.0 4.2.1-11.19.2
  • qemu SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 3.1.1.1-51.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:0761-1SUSE-SU-2021:2591-1SUSE-SU-2021:1942-1SUSE-SU-2021:1893-1SUSE-SU-2021:1837-1

  • qemu openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.1.0-32.1
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.3 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.16.2
  • qemu-testsuite openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.16.7
  • qemu-linux-user openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.16.1
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.2.0-17.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1openSUSE-SU-2021:2591-1openSUSE-SU-2021:1043-1openSUSE-SU-2021:1942-1

  • qemu Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 5.1.0-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-25085

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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-2020-25085 updated cvss 5.0

QEMU: sdhci: out-of-bounds access issue while doing multi block SDMA

  • 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 more
    +2 more products
    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
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1892960 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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