CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-0055

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2014-03-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-03-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The get_rx_bufs function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the vhost-net subsystem in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-431.11.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle vhost_get_vq_desc errors, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 6.0

References