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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-16092

low Nessus Plugin ID 223421

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - In QEMU through 5.0.0, an assertion failure can occur in the network packet processing. This issue affects the e1000e and vmxnet3 network devices. A malicious guest user/process could use this flaw to abort the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c. (CVE-2020-16092)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-16092

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 223421

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2020_16092.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16092

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-spice, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kiwi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kiwi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-docs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-hw-usbredir, cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-hw-usbredir, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-ui-spice, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-common

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16092