CVE-2011-1583

medium
Published 2011-08-12 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Multiple integer overflows in tools/libxc/xc_dom_bzimageloader.c in Xen 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted paravirtualised guest kernel image that triggers (1) a buffer overflow during a decompression loop or (2) an out-of-bounds read in the loader involving unspecified length fields.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.1.1-1
sid Fixed 4.1.1-1
forky Fixed 4.1.1-1
bullseye Fixed 4.1.1-1
bookworm Fixed 4.1.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
citrixxen3.2.0
citrixxen3.3.0
citrixxen4.0.0
citrixxen4.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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