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CVE-2007-5730

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in the "net socket listen" option, aka QEMU "net socket" heap overflow. NOTE: some sources have used CVE-2007-1321 to refer to this issue as part of "NE2000 network driver and the socket code," but this is the correct identifier for the individual net socket listen vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
• QEMU: 0.8.2

References

• http://osvdb.org/42985
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25073
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25095
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27486
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29129
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29963
• http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf
• http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001842.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1284
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:203
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0194.html

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