CVE-2011-1583 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in XEN
Severity
6.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.38%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 12
Latest updateMay 17
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.
CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 3.4 | Impact: 10.0