{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2014-03-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: vhost-net: insufficient handling of error conditions in get_rx_bufs()",
    "id" : "1062577",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062577"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.\nThis issue affects the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may address this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2014-03-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:0328",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-431.11.2.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6",
    "release_date" : "2014-03-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:0339",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::hypervisor",
    "package" : "rhev-hypervisor6-0:6.5-20140324.0.el6ev"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0055\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0055" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-0055",
  "csaw" : false
}