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CVE-2011-1750
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…
High7.4EPSS 0.71%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.4 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.71% · top 46% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (16)
- DSA-2230 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=52c050236eaa4f0b5e1d160cd66dc18106445c4d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:0534 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [Qemu-devel] 20110330 virtio-blk.c handling of i/o which is not a 512 multiple (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 44393 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 44658 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2011:0533 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- kvm-virtioblk-priv-escalation(67062) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 44660 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [Qemu-devel] 20110330 Re: virtio-blk.c handling of i/o which is not a 512 multiple (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 73756 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- USN-1145-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 44900 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2011:0510 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 44132 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-8604 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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