CVE-2012-0029 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the process_tx_desc function in the e1000 emulation (hw/e1000.c) in qemu-kvm 0.12 and possibly other versions allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted legacy mode packets.

Reference

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/stable-1.0 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-02/msg00009.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0370.html http://secunia.com/advisories/47740 http://secunia.com/advisories/47741 http://secunia.com/advisories/47992 http://secunia.com/advisories/48318 http://secunia.com/advisories/50913 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2012-0050.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51642 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1339-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772075 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72656