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CVE-2014-0055

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2014-03-26 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The get_rx_bufs function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the vhost-net subsystem in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-431.11.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle vhost_get_vq_desc errors, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0328.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0339.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59386
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66441
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062577
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0328.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0339.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59386
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66441
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062577

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