CVE-2012-6075
critical
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
9.3
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
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6075
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-12/msg00533.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | 10.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 11.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.10 | affected | |
| rhel | 5.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 5.9 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.4 | affected | |
| suse | 12.1 | affected | |
| suse | 12.2 | affected | |
| suse | 11 | affected | |
| fedora | 16 | affected | |
| fedora | 17 | affected | |
| fedora | 18 | affected | |
| debian | 6.0 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-4 |
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
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.