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 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-12/msg00533.htmlPatch
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b0d9ffcd0251161c7c92f94804dcf599dfa3edeb
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097541.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097575.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097705.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00051.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00052.htmlAdvisory