Buffer overflow in QEMU - CVE-2012-6075
Published: February 13, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32713
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-6075
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: QEMU
Affected software:
QEMU
QEMU
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Buffer overflow in the e1000_receive function in the e1000 device driver (hw/e1000.c) in QEMU 1.3.0-rc2 and other versions, when the SBP and LPE flags are disabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) and possibly execute arbitrary guest code via a large packet.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-6075
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=b0d9ffcd0251161c7c92f94804dcf599dfa3edeb
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097541.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097575.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097705.html
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-12/msg00533.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00051.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00052.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0599.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0608.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0609.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0610.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0639.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2607
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2608
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2619
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57420
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1692-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889301