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CVE-2007-2893

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-05-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bx_ne2k_c::rx_frame function in iodev/ne2k.cc in the emulated NE2000 device in Bochs 2.3 allows local users of the guest operating system to write to arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges on the host operating system via vectors that cause TXCNT register values to exceed the device memory size, aka "RX Frame heap overflow."

Affected products

• BOCHS: 2.3

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188148
• http://osvdb.org/36799
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25470
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26364
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27715
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-21.xml
• http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1351
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24246
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1936
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34508
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188148

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