Source: qemu
Severity: important
Tags: security

>From oss-security:

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A use-after-free issue was found in the INTEL 82574 NIC (e1000e) emulator of
the QEMU. It could occur while sending packets if the guest user set the
packet data address to e1000e's MMIO address. A guest user/process could use
this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg05895.html

Reference:
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  -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1886362

This issue was reported by Alexander Bulekov. CVE-2020-15859 assigned via
Mitre.
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Cheers,
        Moritz

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