CVE-2014-0055 (GCVE-0-2014-0055)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-26 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:05
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0328.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66441 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0339.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062577 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2014-03-25 00:00
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