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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-0077 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  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-2014-0077
NVD Published Date:
04/14/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.