CVE-2014-0077

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

14/04/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Complete