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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5730

Original release date:10/30/2007

Last revised:10/17/2011

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in the "net socket listen" option, aka QEMU "net socket" heap overflow. NOTE: some sources have used CVE-2007-1321 to refer to this issue as part of "NE2000 network driver and the socket code," but this is the correct identifier for the individual net socket listen vulnerability.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.6 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 2.7

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (11/02/2007)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5729 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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External Source: XF

Name: qemu-net-socket-bo(38239)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38239

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1597

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1597

External Source: BID

Name: 23731

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23731

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0194