CVE-2012-0029
N/A
Published: January 27, 2012 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQemu Kvm
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- 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
References (15)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=log%3Bh=refs/heads/stable-1.0Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00002.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-02/msg00009.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0370.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/47740Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/47741Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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