NVD - CVE-2011-2212

CVE-2011-2212 Detail

Modified

This vulnerability has been modified since it was last analyzed by the NVD. It is awaiting reanalysis which may result in further changes to the information provided.

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."

Source: MITRE
Description Last Modified: 06/21/2012

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.4 HIGH
Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 4.4

Access Vector (AV): Local_Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows unauthorized modification
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink	Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00007.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0919.html
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1165-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713589
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9605323
https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2282

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

Buffer Errors (CWE-119)

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-2212
NVD Published Date:
06/21/2012
NVD Last Modified:
12/07/2016

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