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CVE-2014-0077
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 2.5/10
- Access Vector
- Adjacent_network
- Access Complexity
- High
- Authentication Required
- Single
- Impact Score
- 8.5/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | 3.13.10 |
References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d8316f39