CVE-2011-1751

Summary

CVECVE-2011-1751
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-21 15:55:09 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe pciej_write function in hw/acpi_piix4.c in the PIIX4 Power Management emulation in qemu-kvm does not check if a device is hotpluggable before unplugging the PCI-ISA bridge, which allows privileged guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by sending a crafted value to the 0xae08 (PCI_EJ_BASE) I/O port, which leads to a use-after-free related to "active qemu timers."

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-20 | 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 0.1.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.1.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.1.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.1.3 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.1.4 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.1.5 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.1.6 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.10.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.10.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.10.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.10.3 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.10.4 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.10.5 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.10.6 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.11.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.11.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.11.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.11.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.11.0-rc0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.11.0-rc1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.11.0-rc2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.11.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.12.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.12.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.12.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.12.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.12.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.12.3 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.12.4 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.12.5 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.13.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.13.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.13.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.14.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.14.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.14.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.14.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.14.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.15.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.15.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.2.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.3.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.4.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.4.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.4.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.4.3 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.5.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.5.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.5.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.5.3 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.5.4 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.5.5 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.6.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.6.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.7.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.7.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.7.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.8.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.8.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.8.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.9.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.9.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.9.1-5 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 rc3 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 rc4 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 rc3 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 rc4 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GitHub - nelhage/virtunoid: My KVM breakout code from my DEFCON/Black Hat 2011 presentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Qemu Two Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2011-1751 qemu: acpi_piix4: missing hotplug check during device removal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
KVM qemu-kvm Two Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
USN-1145-1: QEMU vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Debian update for qemu-kvm - 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
Made of Bugs » BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.nelhage.com
kvm/qemu-kvm.git - QEMU modified to work with kvm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
QEMU PIIX4 Hotplug Use After Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
access.redhat.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Ignore pci unplug requests for unpluggable devices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.nongnu.org
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
Red Hat update for qemu-kvm - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
www.osvdb.org/73395 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
699773 – (CVE-2011-1751) CVE-2011-1751 qemu: acpi_piix4: missing hotplug check during device removal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
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-2011-1751 - Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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