A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not initialized with a block device. 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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-05-26T21:16:58

Updated: 2022-09-05T05:06:36

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-20196

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-26T22:15:07.907

Modified: 2023-02-12T22:15:16.717


Link: CVE-2021-20196

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