5.5

CVE-2019-9824: qemu Use of Uninitialized Resource

Modified
AliasesRHSA-2019:1650RHSA-2019:2078UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9824
Published 03-06-2019Last modified 04-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-9824 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in qemu. EPSS estimates a 0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.52%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 21 · Related 16
DLA-1781-1DSA-4454-1OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1405-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1RHSA-2019:2425RHSA-2019:2553

Timeline

  1. 03-06-2019
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

tcp_emu in slirp/tcp_subr.c (aka slirp/src/tcp_subr.c) in QEMU 3.0.0 uses uninitialized data in an snprintf call, leading to Information disclosure.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.52%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

44%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.52% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat6 products
  • qemu-guest-agent< 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.4
  • qemu-img< 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.4 | < 10:1.5.3-167.el7
  • qemu-kvm< 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.4 | < 10:1.5.3-167.el7
  • qemu-kvm-common< 10:1.5.3-167.el7
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo< 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.4 | < 10:1.5.3-167.el7
Debian2 products
  • qemu< 1:3.1+dfsg-6
  • slirp4netns< 0.3.1-1
Qemu1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.46 | < 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.38 | < 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.13

4 vendors · 10 products

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