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CVE-2007-5730 Detail

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in the "net socket listen" option, aka QEMU "net socket" heap overflow. NOTE: some sources have used CVE-2007-1321 to refer to this issue as part of "NE2000 network driver and the socket code," but this is the correct identifier for the individual net socket listen vulnerability.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (11/02/2007)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5729 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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Hyperlink Resource
http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf Technical Description  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001842.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1284 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:203 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0194.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23731 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1597 Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38239 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10000 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-5730
NVD Published Date:
10/30/2007
NVD Last Modified:
12/15/2020
Source:
MITRE