UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0055

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0055

    Published: 26 Mar 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-0055
    Aliases:
    USN-2223-1
    USN-2224-1
    USN-2225-1

    Summary:

    Details: The get_rx_bufs function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the vhost-net subsystem in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-431.11.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle vhost_get_vq_desc errors, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0055, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062577, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2223-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2224-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2225-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2228-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2235-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2236-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0055

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-21.43

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    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