CVE-2013-4536

NameCVE-2013-4536
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs739589

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23fixed
stretch (security)1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12fixed
bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie1:9.2.0+ds-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusource(unstable)2.1+dfsg-1low739589
qemu-kvmsource(unstable)(unfixed)low

Notes

[wheezy] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue, hardly exploitable in practice)
[squeeze] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue, hardly exploitable in practice)
[wheezy] - qemu-kvm <no-dsa> (Minor issue, hardly exploitable in practice)
[squeeze] - qemu-kvm <no-dsa> (Minor issue, hardly exploitable in practice)

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