CVE-2011-1750
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the virtio-blk driver (hw/virtio-blk.c) in qemu-kvm 0.14.0 allow local guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) and possibly gain privileges via a (1) write request to the virtio_blk_handle_write…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.71%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the virtio-blk driver (hw/virtio-blk.c) in qemu-kvm 0.14.0 allow local guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) and possibly gain privileges via a (1) write request to the virtio_blk_handle_write function or (2) read request to the virtio_blk_handle_read function that is not properly aligned.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.4 HIGHAV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.71% probability · 53th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- qemu/qemu
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 0.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=52c050236eaa4f0b5e1d160cd66dc18106445c4d
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03015.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00043.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0534.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44132Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44393Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44658Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44660Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44900Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/73756
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67062
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8572547
- https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2230
- https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1145-1/
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=52c050236eaa4f0b5e1d160cd66dc18106445c4d
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03015.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00043.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0534.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44132Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44393Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44658Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44660Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44900Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/73756
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67062
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8572547
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.