CVE-2020-13800

Publication date 4 June 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

ati-vga in hw/display/ati.c in QEMU 4.2.0 allows guest OS users to trigger infinite recursion via a crafted mm_index value during an ati_mm_read or ati_mm_write call.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.4
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
qemu-kvm	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
qemu	Upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=a98610c429d52db0937c1e48659428929835c455

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4467-1
QEMU vulnerabilities
19 August 2020