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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2014-04-22 10:53 | ALAS-2014-328 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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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 |