CVE-2011-1750
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | 0.14.0 | |
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=52c050236eaa4f0b5e1d160cd66dc18106445c4d
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03015.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00043.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0534.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44132
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44393
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44658
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44660
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44900
- http://www.osvdb.org/73756
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67062
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8572547
- https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2230
- https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1145-1/
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=52c050236eaa4f0b5e1d160cd66dc18106445c4d
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03015.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00043.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0534.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44132
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44393
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44658
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.