| Name | CVE-2013-4536 |
| Description | An user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the wire during migration) could use this flaw to to corrupt QEMU process memory on the (destination) host, which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 739589 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:9.1.1+ds-5 | fixed |
| sid | 1:9.1.2+ds-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 2.1+dfsg-1 | low | | 739589 |
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | low | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue, hardly exploitable in practice)
[squeeze] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue, hardly exploitable in practice)
[wheezy] - qemu-kvm <no-dsa> (Minor issue, hardly exploitable in practice)
[squeeze] - qemu-kvm <no-dsa> (Minor issue, hardly exploitable in practice)