CVE-2013-4542

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% 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

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.

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=commitdiff%3Bh=3c3ce981423e0d6c18af82ee62f1850c2cda5976
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133345.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0743.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0744.html
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3c3ce981423e0d6c18af82ee62f1850c2cda5976
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133345.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0743.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0744.html

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