Memory Corruption and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2014-0077 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:A/AC:H/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:C

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.

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