VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2011-2212
Buffer overflow in the virtio subsystem in qemu-kvm 0.14.0 and earlier allows privileged guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) or gain privileges via a crafted indirect descriptor related to "virtqueue in and out requests."
HIGH 7.4EPSS 0.71%
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
Buffer overflow in the virtio subsystem in qemu-kvm 0.14.0 and earlier allows privileged guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) or gain privileges via a crafted indirect descriptor related to "virtqueue in and out requests."
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.4 HIGHAV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.71% probability · 51th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- qemu/qemu
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00007.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0919.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45158Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45170Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45187Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45188Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45301Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45354Vendor Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1165-1
- http://www.osvdb.org/74751
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713589
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9605323
- https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2282
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00007.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0919.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45158Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45170Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45187Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45188Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45301Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45354Vendor Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1165-1
- http://www.osvdb.org/74751
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713589
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9605323
- https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2282
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.