CVE-2011-1750

Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

QEMU: 0.14.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=52c050236eaa4f0b5e1d160cd66dc18106445c4d
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03015.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00043.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0534.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/44132
http://secunia.com/advisories/44393
http://secunia.com/advisories/44658
http://secunia.com/advisories/44660
http://secunia.com/advisories/44900
http://www.osvdb.org/73756

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