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CVE-2014-0077

Public on 2014-04-14
Modified on 2014-09-18
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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
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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 5.5 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