CVE-2012-0029: Buffer Overflow
First published: Thu Jan 05 2012(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU KVM | =0.12 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=783984
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0051.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0050.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0109.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0168.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0370.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772075
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=log%3Bh=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://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72656
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
- alias/CVE-2012-0029
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/event
- agent/description
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/references
- agent/tags
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- vendor/kvm group
- canonical/qemu kvm
- version/qemu kvm/0.12