CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-12809
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM Emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by flushing an empty CDROM device drive.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.9.1)
• qemu qemu 2.10.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.html Patch, Third Party Advisory