CVE-2012-6075
Buffer overflow in the e1000_receive function in the e1000 device driver (hw/e1000.c) in QEMU 1.3.0-rc2 and other versions, when the SBP and LPE flags are disabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) and possibly execute arbitrary guest code via a large packet.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-120
- EPSS score
- 4.9% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-5949)
- Published
- February 13, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-5949 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- qemu / qemu
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux eus
- redhat / enterprise linux eus
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux server aus
- redhat / enterprise linux server aus
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- redhat / virtualization
- suse / linux enterprise server
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH-Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1384 - historical
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b0d9ffcd0251161c7c92f94804dcf599dfa3edeb
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097541.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097575.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/097705.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-12/msg00533.html(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00051.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00052.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0599.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0608.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0609.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0610.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0639.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2607(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2608(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2619(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/1(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57420(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1692-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889301(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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