CVE-2011-2212

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

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."

Affected products

QEMU: through 0.14.0; 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.1.5 (+50)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00007.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0919.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/45158
http://secunia.com/advisories/45170
http://secunia.com/advisories/45187
http://secunia.com/advisories/45188
http://secunia.com/advisories/45301
http://secunia.com/advisories/45354
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1165-1
http://www.osvdb.org/74751
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713589
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9605323

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