CVE-2019-13164 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2019-13164?

CVE-2019-13164 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Jul 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

qemu-bridge-helper.c in QEMU 3.1 and 4.0.0 does not ensure that a network interface name (obtained from bridge.conf or a --br=bridge option) is limited to the IFNAMSIZ size, which can lead to an ACL bypass.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-13164?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2019-13164?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2019-13164 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-13164 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-2019-13164, GHSA-5ff7-wj9x-5xc5, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13164.