CVE-2013-4532 Memory corruption in qemu

What is CVE-2013-4532?

CVE-2013-4532 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 2 Jan 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Qemu 1.1.2+dfsg to 2.1+dfsg suffers from a buffer overrun which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4532?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4532?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2013-4532 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4532 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4532, GHSA-6fpp-r2v5-x6rq, UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4532.