CVE-2013-4538

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the ssd0323_load function in hw/display/ssd0323.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) cmd_len, (2) row, or (3) col values; (4) row_start and row_end values; or (5) col_star and col_end values in a savevm image.

Affected products

QEMU: through 1.7.1; 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.1.5 (+82)

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ead7a57df37d2187813a121308213f41591bd811
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133345.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-12/msg00394.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ead7a57df37d2187813a121308213f41591bd811
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133345.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-12/msg00394.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html

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