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CVE-2007-5730 Detail

Current 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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  10/30/2007
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Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.6 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 2.7

Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows unauthorized modification
Allows disruption of service

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

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10000
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10000

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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:
09/28/2017