National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2212

Overview

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."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2011:0806

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9605323

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713589

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713589

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 74751

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/74751

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1165-1

Hyperlink:http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1165-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45354

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45354

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45301

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45301

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45188

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45188

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45187

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45187

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45170

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45170

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45158

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45158

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0919

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0919.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2011:0803

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00007.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2282

Hyperlink:http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00156.html