CVE-2012-0029

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    CVE-2012-0029

    Published: 27 Jan 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1339-1, 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://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2012-0050.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51642, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72656

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High