diff --git a/hw-net-net_tx_pkt-fix-assertion-failure-in-net_tx_pk.patch b/hw-net-net_tx_pkt-fix-assertion-failure-in-net_tx_pk.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15fcf57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw-net-net_tx_pkt-fix-assertion-failure-in-net_tx_pk.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+From d65a00000e56ee2cec2f506b1408128d2df56ad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mauro Matteo Cascella <mcascell@redhat.com>
+Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 18:42:38 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] hw/net/net_tx_pkt: fix assertion failure in
+ net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment()
+
+An assertion failure issue was found in the code that processes network packets
+while adding data fragments into the packet context. It could be abused by a
+malicious guest to abort the QEMU process on the host. This patch replaces the
+affected assert() with a conditional statement, returning false if the current
+data fragment exceeds max_raw_frags.
+
+Reported-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
+Reported-by: Ziming Zhang <ezrakiez@gmail.com>
+Reviewed-by: Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry.fleytman@gmail.com>
+Signed-off-by: Mauro Matteo Cascella <mcascell@redhat.com>
+Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
+---
+ hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c | 5 ++++-
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c b/hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c
+index 162f802dd7..54d4c3bbd0 100644
+--- a/hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c
++++ b/hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c
+@@ -379,7 +379,10 @@ bool net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment(struct NetTxPkt *pkt, hwaddr pa,
+     hwaddr mapped_len = 0;
+     struct iovec *ventry;
+     assert(pkt);
+-    assert(pkt->max_raw_frags > pkt->raw_frags);
++
++    if (pkt->raw_frags >= pkt->max_raw_frags) {
++        return false;
++    }
+ 
+     if (!len) {
+         return true;
+-- 
+2.23.0
+