CVE-2011-2212

Summary

CVECVE-2011-2212
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-21 15:55:09 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionBuffer 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."

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 0.1.0 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 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.14.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.14.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 0.2.0 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 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian update for qemu-kvm - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2282-1 qemu-kvm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Qemu Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
KVM qemu-kvm Multiple 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
713589 – (CVE-2011-2212) CVE-2011-2212 qemu-kvm: virtqueue: too-large indirect descriptor buffer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9605323 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hermes.opensuse.org
USN-1165-1: QEMU vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com
Red Hat update for qemu-kvm - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
www.osvdb.org/74751 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2011:0803-1: important: kvm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Ubuntu update for qemu-kvm - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
CVE-2011-2212 - 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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