CVE-2014-0055

Severity

55%

Complexity

51%

Confidentiality

115%

The get_rx_bufs function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the vhost-net subsystem in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-431.11.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle vhost_get_vq_desc errors, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

The get_rx_bufs function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the vhost-net subsystem in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-431.11.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle vhost_get_vq_desc errors, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-03-26 14:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-22 17:48:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

References

RHSA-2014:0328

RHSA-2014:0339

59386

66441

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062577

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