CVE-2013-4544

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU 2.0.0-rc0, 1.7.1, and earlier allows local guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) RX or (2) TX queue numbers or (3) interrupt indices. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.10, 14.04
QEMU: through 1.7.1; 1.0, 1.0-rc1, 1.0-rc2, 1.0-rc3, 1.0-rc4, 1.0.1 (+21)

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c99afc779c2c78718a565ad8c5e98de7c2c7484
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c6c0478996e8f77374e69b6df68655b0b4ba689
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9878d173f574df74bde0ff50b2f81009fbee81bb
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f12d048a523780dbda702027d4a91b62af1a08d7
http://secunia.com/advisories/58191
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/265562
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2182-1
http://www.osvdb.org/106013
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087513
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c99afc779c2c78718a565ad8c5e98de7c2c7484
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c6c0478996e8f77374e69b6df68655b0b4ba689
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9878d173f574df74bde0ff50b2f81009fbee81bb

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