CVE-2019-13164

HIGH

QEMU <4.0.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (14)

Core 14
Core References
Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg00145.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/02/2
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109054
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/41
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4506
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00000.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4512
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00008.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00021.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4191-2/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4191-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-66

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (12)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.10
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
opensuse/leap 15.0
opensuse/leap 15.1
... and 2 more
Published Jul 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026