xen — security advisory
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.
- Products
- xen
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.1.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2011-1583
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1583
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.1-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.1-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.1-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:35.098015058Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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