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CVE-2011-1750

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1750 describes multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the virtio-blk driver of qemu-kvm 0.14.0. This vulnerability allows authenticated local guest users to trigger a denial of service (guest crash) and potentially escalate privileges through unaligned read or write requests. With a CVSS score of 7.4, it is considered highly severe due to its adjacent attack vector, medium attack complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.4HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
4.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 45 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.160.el6
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.0Fixed in: qemu-kvm

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-1750Important

virtio-blk: heap buffer overflow caused by unaligned requests

Mar 30, 2011

References

git.kernel.org
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03015.html
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03019.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00043.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2011-0534.html
secunia.com / advisories/44132
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/44393
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/44658
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/44660
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/44900
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/67062
hermes.opensuse.org / messages/8572547
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2230
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1145-1
osvdb.org / 73756