CVE-2011-2212 Information

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.\

Reference

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 https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2282