CVE-2014-0077: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.10, when mergeable buffers are disabled, does not properly validate packet lengths, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges on the host OS via crafted packets, related to the handle_rx and get_rx_bufs functions.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.13.10 (fixed in 3.13.10)

Published 2014-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.