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CVE-2013-4542

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Description

The virtio_scsi_load_request function in hw/scsi/scsi-bus.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted savevm image, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0744.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0743.html

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133345.html

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3c3ce981423e0d6c18af82ee62f1850c2cda5976

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-11-04

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02095

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