CVE-2013-2016

HIGH

Qemu < 1.4.2 - Improper Privilege Management

Title source: rule

Description

A flaw was found in the way qemu v1.3.0 and later (virtio-rng) validates addresses when guest accesses the config space of a virtio device. If the virtio device has zero/small sized config space, such as virtio-rng, a privileged guest user could use this flaw to access the matching host's qemu address space and thus increase their privileges on the host.

References (9)

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00002.html

[Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/5

[Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/6

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59541

[Third Party Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2016

[Exploit, Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-2016

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83850

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/5f5a1318653c08e435cfa52f60b6a712815b659d

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Third Party Advisory] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2016

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 22.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Affected Products (7)

qemu/qemu < 1.4.2

qemu/qemu

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

novell/open_desktop_server

novell/open_enterprise_server

Timeline

Published Dec 30, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026