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:

CWE-476

Affected Software
References

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.html

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2017-12809

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