Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2017-12809

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.

  • Published: Aug 23, 2017
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2017-12809
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 2.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
qemu / qemu - 2.9.1.x
qemu / qemu 2.10.0-rc0 2.10.0-rc0.x
qemu / qemu 2.10.0-rc1 2.10.0-rc1.x
qemu / qemu 2.10.0-rc2 2.10.0-rc2.x
debian / debian_linux 9.0 9.0.x