CVE-2011-1750

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-1750
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-21 15:55:08 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.4 from [email protected]

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Adjacent
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu 0.14.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
kvm/qemu-kvm.git - QEMU modified to work with kvm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
[Qemu-devel] virtio-blk.c handling of i/o which is not a 512 multiple af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.gnu.org
www.osvdb.org/73756 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
USN-1145-1: QEMU vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-blk.c handling of i/o which is not a 512 multipl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.gnu.org
Debian update for qemu-kvm - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
KVM qemu-kvm virtio-blk Driver Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SUSE update for kvm - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8572547 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hermes.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2011:0510-1: moderate: kvm security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Red Hat update for qemu-kvm - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2230-1 qemu-kvm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: qemu-0.14.0-9.fc15 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Ubuntu update for qemu-kvm - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
kvm/qemu-kvm.git - QEMU modified to work with kvm MITRE git.kernel.org
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
CVE-2011-1750 - Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
Bug 698906 – CVE-2011-1750 virtio-blk: heap buffer overflow caused by unaligned requests MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
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