Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-1583

Title: Citrix Xen RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-1583.

CWE Category CWE-189
Published Date Aug 12, 2011
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-1583: 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.

Impacted Vendors

X
xensource_inc 1
C
citrix 1

Reference Links

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00483.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00491.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0496.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00483.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00491.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0496.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-1583 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.