CVE-2011-1486: redhat libvirt Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2011-1486 is a low (CVSS 3.3) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in redhat libvirt. EPSS estimates a 1.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 3.3, adjacent network); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 31-05-2011PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
libvirtd in libvirt before 0.9.0 does not use thread-safe error reporting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing multiple threads to report errors at the same time.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
1.20%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
68%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 1.20% on 05-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: adjacent network, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat6 products
- libvirt≤ 0.8.8 | 0.0.1 | 0.0.2 | 0.0.3 | 0.0.4 | 0.0.5 | 0.0.6 | 0.1.0 | 0.1.1 | 0.1.3 | 0.1.4 | 0.1.5 | 0.1.6 | 0.1.7 | 0.1.8 | 0.1.9 | 0.2.0 | 0.2.1 | 0.2.2 | 0.2.3 | 0.3.0 | 0.3.1 | 0.3.2 | 0.3.3 | 0.4.0 | 0.4.1 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.3 | 0.4.4 | 0.4.5 | 0.4.6 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.1 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.1 | 0.6.2 | 0.6.3 | 0.6.4 | 0.6.5 | 0.7.0 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.3 | 0.7.4 | 0.7.5 | 0.7.6 | 0.7.7 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.1 | 0.8.2 | 0.8.3 | 0.8.4 | 0.8.5 | 0.8.6 | 0.8.7
- libvirt< 0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4 | < 0:0.8.1-27.el6_0.6
- libvirt-client< 0:0.8.1-27.el6_0.6
- libvirt-debuginfo< 0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4 | < 0:0.8.1-27.el6_0.6
- libvirt-devel< 0:0.8.2-15.el5_6.4 | < 0:0.8.1-27.el6_0.6
Debian1 product
- libvirt< 0.9.0-1
2 vendors · 7 products
References
21 links- support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100134583X Refsource CONFIRM