CVE-2011-3346: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Buffer overflow in hw/scsi-disk.c in the SCSI subsystem in QEMU before 0.15.2, as used by Xen, might allow local guest users with permission to access the CD-ROM to cause a denial of service guest crash via a crafted SAI READ CAPACITY SCSI command. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when root has...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The xen packages contain administration tools and the xend service for managing the kernel-xen kernel for virtualization on Scientific Linux. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Xen hypervisor SCSI subsystem emulation. An unprivileged, local guest user could provide a large number of bytes th...