CVE-2014-0077 | Mend Vulnerability Database

Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2014-0077

CVE-2014-0077

Published:April 14, 2014

Updated:May 17, 2026

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.

Related Resources (10)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0077

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-0077

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0077

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678

http://secunia.com/advisories/59386

http://secunia.com/advisories/59599

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