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medium 6.0

CVE-2020-35503 json

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.

published 2021-06-02 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-23172

cvss
6.0
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • qemu SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 +1 more 2.11.2-5.40.2
  • qemu SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLES 15 SP1-BCL +3 more 3.1.1.1-80.40.1
  • qemu SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 2.11.2-70.59.1
  • qemu SLES 12 SP2-BCL 2.6.2-41.73.1
  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP3, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 5.2.0-103.2
  • qemu SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 3.1.1.1-57.2
  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2, SLE Micro 5.0 4.2.1-11.28.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:3635-1SUSE-SU-2021:3614-1SUSE-SU-2021:3613-1SUSE-SU-2021:3575-1SUSE-SU-2021:2858-1SUSE-SU-2021:2813-1

  • qemu openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.2.0-41.1
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.3 3.1.1.1-80.40.1
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.2.0-103.2
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
  • qemu-testsuite openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
  • qemu-linux-user openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.3 4.2.1-11.28.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11907-1openSUSE-SU-2021:3614-1openSUSE-SU-2021:2858-1openSUSE-SU-2021:1202-1openSUSE-SU-2021:2789-1

  • qemu Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 6.1.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-35503

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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-2020-35503 updated cvss 3.2

QEMU: NULL pointer dereference issue in megasas-gen2 host bus adapter

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm 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-img-rhev, +9 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

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a QEMU

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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