CVE-2011-1750

Published Jun 21, 2012

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.4
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 4.4
Vector string: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-119

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "77768E6F-408A-48A7-9F67-B8E1760DBA11"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References