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CVE-2012-0029

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
27/01/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the process_tx_desc function in the e1000 emulation (hw/e1000.c) in qemu-kvm 0.12, and possibly other versions, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted legacy mode packets.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.40 HIGH
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0
7.40
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:kvm_group:qemu-kvm:0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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