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.
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 | 5.5 | AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.5 | AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C |