Improper Privilege Management Affecting qemu package, versions <2.1+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-QEMU-11765954
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed28 May 2021

Introduced: 28 May 2021

CVE-2013-4536  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 qemu to version 2.1+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

An user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the wire during migration) could use this flaw to to corrupt QEMU process memory on the (destination) host, which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1