CVE-2014-0077 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0 http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0