CVE-2014-0077

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedApr 14, 2014
First seenApr 14, 2014

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel3.13.10 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv < 3.13.103.13.10

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