| Name | CVE-2014-0055 |
| Description | The get_rx_bufs function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the vhost-net subsystem in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-431.11.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle vhost_get_vq_desc errors, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unspecified vectors. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.244-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.148-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.153-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.12.43-1 | fixed |
| trixie (security) | 6.12.48-1 | fixed |
| forky | 6.16.12-2 | fixed |
| sid | 6.17.7-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | wheezy | 3.2.57-1 | | | |
| linux | source | (unstable) | 3.13.10-1 | | | |
| linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
introduced in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8dd014adfea6f173c1ef6378f7e5e7924866c923
qemu is built with support for vhost_net, module loaded post-wheezy when linux < 3.4 but root:root 0600