CVE-2019-7165

Publication date 3 July 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

A buffer overflow in DOSBox 0.74-2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
dosbox	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Fixed 0.74-2-3+deb10u1build0.19.04.1
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.74-4.3ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.74-4.2+deb9u2build0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5356-1
DOSBox vulnerabilities
30 March 2022

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-7165

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