CVE-2012-0029

Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the process_tx_desc function in the e1000 emulation (hw/e1000.c) in qemu-kvm 0.12, and possibly other versions, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted legacy mode packets.

Affected products

Kvm Group Qemu-Kvm: 0.12

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=log%3Bh=refs/heads/stable-1.0
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-02/msg00009.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0370.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47740
http://secunia.com/advisories/47741
http://secunia.com/advisories/47992
http://secunia.com/advisories/48318
http://secunia.com/advisories/50913
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2012-0050.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51642

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