CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-2016
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-12-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
A flaw was found in the way qemu v1.3.0 and later (virtio-rng) validates addresses when guest accesses the config space of a virtio device. If the virtio device has zero/small sized config space, such as virtio-rng, a privileged guest user could use this flaw to access the matching host's qemu address space and thus increase their privileges on the host.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (>= 1.3.0 <= 1.4.2)
• qemu qemu 1.5.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• novell open desktop server 11.0
• novell open enterprise server 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00002.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59541 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2016 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-2016 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83850 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/5f5a1318653c08e435cfa52f60b6a712815b659d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2016 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00002.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59541 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2016 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-2016 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83850 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/5f5a1318653c08e435cfa52f60b6a712815b659d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2016 Third Party Advisory