Improper Privilege Management Affecting qemu package, versions <2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.3
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (14th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-QEMU-428413
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 28 May 2021
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2013-4536 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 qemu to version 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.3 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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.
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