CVE-2013-4544 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4544?

CVE-2013-4544 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 May 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4544?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4544?

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-2013-4544 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4544 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4544, GHSA-xxjj-3mqq-qmc5, UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4544.