CVE-2012-0029
HIGH · CVSS 7.4EPSS 0.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.9% (60th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0069)
- Published
- January 27, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0069 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- kvm group / qemu-kvm
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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47741(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1339-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772075
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72656
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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