CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1583
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Multiple integer overflows in tools/libxc/xc_dom_bzimageloader.c in Xen 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted paravirtualised guest kernel image that triggers (1) a buffer overflow during a decompression loop or (2) an out-of-bounds read in the loader involving unspecified length fields.
Affected configurations
• citrix xen 3.2.0
• citrix xen 3.3.0
• citrix xen 4.0.0
• citrix xen 4.1.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00483.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00491.html Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0496.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00483.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00491.html Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0496.html rhn.redhat.com