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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-2212

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-2212

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/21/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

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."

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kvm

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