CVE-2010-0741
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 12, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 26, 2010
Description
The virtio_net_bad_features function in hw/virtio-net.c in the virtio-net driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26, when used on a guest OS in conjunction with qemu-kvm 0.11.0 or KVM 83, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash, and an associated qemu-kvm process exit) by sending a large amount of network traffic to a TCP port on the guest OS, related to a virtio-net whitelist that includes an improper implementation of TCP Segment Offloading (TSO).
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- 1023798vdb-entry
- RHSA-2010:0476vendor-advisory
- https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/458521
- ADV-2010-0760vdb-entry
- [qemu-devel] 20091029 Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio networkmailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11143vdb-entrysignature
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/56479/
- [qemu-devel] 20091029 [PATCH] whitelist host virtio networking features [was Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older ...]mailing-list
- RHSA-2010:0271vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=184bd0484533b725194fa517ddc271ffd74da7c9
- [oss-security] 20100329 CVE-2010-0741 qemu: Improper handling of erroneous data provided by Linux virtio-net drivermailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577218
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