VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-0077

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.81%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-04-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references