CVE-2017-9503

medium

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving megasas command processing.

References

Advisories

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg01313.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg01309.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00020.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459477

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99010

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/08/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-16

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0007