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CVE-2011-2212

Published: 20 June 2011

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."

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
be careful, 0.14.1 and Debian do not have the patch

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
qemu-kvm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needed

hardy Does not exist

lucid
Released (0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.12)
maverick
Released (0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.8)
natty
Released (0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4.3)
Patches:
vendor: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0919.html
This vulnerability is mitigated in part by an AppArmor profile.