Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in virtio-blk Driver in qemu-kvm 0.14.0

CVE-2011-1750 · HIGH Severity

AV:A/AC:M/AU:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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