Qemu 'vmxnet3.c' CVE-2013-4544 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	66955
Class:	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:	CVE-2013-4544
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Apr 14 2014 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 13 2015 09:25PM
Credit:	Michael S. Tsirkin of Red Hat.
Vulnerable:	Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 13.10 Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 12.10 Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 10.04 QEMU QEMU 1.7.1 QEMU QEMU 1.6.1 QEMU QEMU 1.6.0 QEMU QEMU 1.5.3 QEMU QEMU 1.5.2 QEMU QEMU 1.5.1 QEMU QEMU 1.5.0 QEMU QEMU 1.4.2 QEMU QEMU 1.4.1 QEMU QEMU 1.4.0 Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable:	QEMU QEMU 2.0

Qemu 'vmxnet3.c' CVE-2013-4544 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Qemu is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users. Due to the nature of this issue, privilege-escalation may be possible; however this has not been confirmed.

Qemu 'vmxnet3.c' CVE-2013-4544 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Qemu 'vmxnet3.c' CVE-2013-4544 Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• QEMU Homepage (QEMU)
  
• vmxnet3: validate interrupt indices coming from guest (Github)
  
• vmxnet3: validate interrupt indices read on migration (Github)
  
• Qemu: vmxnet3: bounds checking buffer overrun (Red Hat Bugzilla)
  
• USN-2182-1: QEMU vulnerabilities (Ubuntu)
  
• vmxnet3: validate queues configuration coming from guest (Github)