CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0077
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.10, when mergeable buffers are disabled, does not properly validate packet lengths, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges on the host OS via crafted packets, related to the handle_rx and get_rx_bufs functions.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.13.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0 Patch, Third Party Advisory