CVE-2012-6075

critical
Published 2013-02-13 · Modified 2026-04-29
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6075

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-12/msg00533.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
redhat rhel5.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel5.9affected
redhat rhel6.4affected
suse suse12.1affected
suse suse12.2affected
suse suse11affected
fedora fedora16affected
fedora fedora17affected
fedora fedora18affected
debian debian6.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.1.2+dfsg-4
debian debianbullseyefixed1.1.2+dfsg-4
debian debianforkyfixed1.1.2+dfsg-4
debian debiansidfixed1.1.2+dfsg-4
debian debiantrixiefixed1.1.2+dfsg-4

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endExcluding":"1.3.0"}1.3.0
redhat redhatvirtualization3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-120

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.