CVE-2014-0077

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.5/10AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0
http://secunia.com/advisories/59386Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/59599Broken Link
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0
http://secunia.com/advisories/59386Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/59599Broken Link
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 14, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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