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high 7.4

CVE-2011-2212 json

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 cr…

published 2012-06-21 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-2201

cvss
7.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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."

Patch / fix

  • qemu-kvm RHEL 6 2:0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2
  • qemu-img RHEL 6 2:0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2
  • qemu-kvm-tools RHEL 6 2:0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:0919

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-2212 updated cvss 7.4

qemu-kvm: virtqueue: too-large indirect descriptor buffer overflow

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) qemu-img 0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2, qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2, qemu-kvm-tools 0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:0919
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2 ovirt-node
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.4 AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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