Vulnerabilites related to qemu - qemu (virtio-rng)
CVE-2013-2016 (GCVE-0-2013-2016)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-12-30 21:47
Modified
2024-08-06 15:20
Severity ?
CWE
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Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qemu qemu (virtio-rng) Version: v1.3.0 and later
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