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CVE-2014-0055

Public on 2014-03-26
Modified on 2014-09-18
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.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2014-04-22 10:53 ALAS-2014-328

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.2 AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 5.5 AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C