CVE-2019-14835 – kernel: vhost-net: guest to host kernel escape during migration

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2019-14835

17 Sep 2019 — A buffer overflow flaw was found, in versions from 2.6.34 to 5.2.x, in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host. Se encontró un fallo de desbordamiento de búfer, en las versiones desde 2.6.34 hasta 5.2.x, en la manera en que la funcionalidad vhost d... • http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html • CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') •