CVE-2013-4532

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: January 2, 2020 at 03:26 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxQEMU

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

Qemu 1.1.2+dfsg to 2.1+dfsg suffers from a buffer overrun which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (7)

x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2342-1
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739589
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4532
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4532

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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