CVE-2013-4148

high
Published 2014-11-04 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Integer signedness error in the virtio_net_load function in hw/net/virtio-net.c in QEMU 1.x before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted savevm image, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.1+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 2.1+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 2.1+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 2.1+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 2.1+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu1.0
qemuqemu1.0.1
qemuqemu1.1
qemuqemu1.4.1
qemuqemu1.4.2
qemuqemu1.5.0
qemuqemu1.5.1
qemuqemu1.5.2
qemuqemu1.5.3
qemuqemu1.6.0
qemuqemu1.6.1
qemuqemu1.6.2
qemuqemu1.7.1

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.