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CVE-2011-1583

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1583 describes multiple integer overflows in the Xen hypervisor (versions 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1), specifically within the xc_dom_bzimageloader.c component, affecting Citrix Xen. These flaws allow a local attacker, via a crafted paravirtualized guest kernel image, to trigger a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary code due to buffer overflows or out-of-bounds reads during image loading. With a CVSS score of 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability has high impact potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires medium attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0070 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xen-0:3.0.3-120.el5_6.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-1583Important

xen: insufficiencies in pv kernel image validation

May 9, 2011

References

lists.xensource.com / archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00483.html
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.xensource.com / archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00491.html
Patch
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2011-0496.html