CVE-2011-1750
HIGH · CVSS 7.4EPSS 0.7%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.7% (54th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1749)
- Published
- June 21, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1749 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- qemu / qemu
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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44393(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44658(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44660(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44900(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/73756
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67062
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8572547
- https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2230
- https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1145-1/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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