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CVE-2017-12809

medium

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.

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-23

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0009