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LIN1021-23747 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2020-27821

Created: Apr 28, 2026    Updated: Apr 30, 2026
Found In Version: 10.21.20.27
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace

Description

A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.