CVE-2017-12809

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-12809
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-08-23 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-11-10 18:41:00 UTC
DescriptionQEMU (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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.10.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.10.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.10.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.10.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.10.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.10.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3991-1 qemu DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2017-12809 Qemu: ide: flushing of empty CDROM drives leads to NULL dereference MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] IDE: Do not flush empty CDROM drives MLIST lists.gnu.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
Qemu CVE-2017-12809 Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900063 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
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