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CVE-2013-4540

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.6% 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

Buffer overflow in scoop_gpio_handler_update in QEMU before 1.7.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large (1) prev_level, (2) gpio_level, or (3) gpio_dir value in a savevm image.

Affected products

• Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1
• 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=52f91c3723932f8340fe36c8ec8b18a757c37b2b
• 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00003.html
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=52f91c3723932f8340fe36c8ec8b18a757c37b2b
• 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00003.html

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