CVE-2020-35506: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Overview

Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.7)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Patch Tuesday
2021-May
Released
2021-06-09
EPSS Score
0.03% (percentile: 8.6%)

FAQ

Is Azure Linux the only Microsoft product that includes this open-source library and is therefore potentially affected by this vulnerability? One of the main benefits to our customers who choose to use the Azure Linux distro is the commitment to keep it up to date with the most recent and most secure versions of the open source libraries with which the distro is composed. Microsoft is committed to transparency in this work which is why we began publishing CSAF/VEX in October 2025. See this blog post for more information. If impact to additional products is identified, we will update the CVE to reflect this.

Affected Products (1)

Other

  • 19046-16820

Revision History

  • 2021-06-09: Information published.