National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2511

Overview

Integer overflow in libvirt before 0.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VirDomainGetVcpus RPC call that triggers memory corruption.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [libvirt] 20110624 [PATCH 2/2] remote: protect against integer overflow

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-June/msg01278.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110628 CVE request: libvirt: integer overflow in VirDomainGetVcpus

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/28/9

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2011:0837

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/10027908

External Source: XF

Name: libvirt-virdomaingetvcpus-bo(68271)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/68271

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1180-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1180-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025822

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025822

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1197

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1197.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1019

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1019.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2280

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2280

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45446

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45446

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45441

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45441

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45375

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45375

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-9062

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062855.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-9091

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062515.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://libvirt.org/news.html

Hyperlink:http://libvirt.org/news.html