{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2011-05-08T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "qemu-kvm: OOB memory access caused by negative vq notifies",
    "id" : "717399",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717399"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.5",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The virtio_queue_notify in qemu-kvm 0.14.0 and earlier does not properly validate the virtqueue number, which allows guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative number in the Queue Notify field of the Virtio Header, which bypasses a signed comparison." ],
  "statement" : "This issue only affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The version of the qemu/kvm\nas shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not affected.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-07-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0919",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "qemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2512\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2512" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-2512",
  "csaw" : false
}