CVE-2012-6075
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.3
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Fedora Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | Affected | — |
| 17 | Affected | — |
| 16 | Affected | — |
Red Hat Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
| 5.9 | Affected | — |
| 5.0 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 12.2 | Affected | — |
| 12.1 | Affected | — |
| 11 | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 12.10 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
| 11.10 | Affected | — |
| 10.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endExcluding":"1.3.0"} | 1.3.0 |
| redhat | virtualization | 3.0 | |
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6075
CWEs
CWE-120
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.