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CVE-2011-2212
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…
High7.4EPSS 0.70%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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."
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)
- 0.70% · top 47% of all CVEs (2 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
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- RHSA-2011:0919 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 45170 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 45354 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 45301 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-2282 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 45158 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2011:0803 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 45188 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 74751 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- USN-1165-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713589 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 45187 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2011:0806 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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)
Record last updated .