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CVE-2012-6075

HIGH severity · CVSS 9.3 · Buffer overflow
9.3CVSS HIGH

Summary

Buffer overflow in the e1000_receive function in the e1000 device driver (hw/e1000.c) in QEMU 1.3.0-rc2 and other versions, when the SBP and LPE flags are disabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) and possibly execute arbitrary guest code via a large packet.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products we track (2)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-12/msg00533.html ↗