CVE-2017-12809

Qemu: ide: flushing of empty CDROM drives leads to NULL dereference

Published Aug 23, 2017 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3991-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-4346 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3414-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 6:51 PM
Reserved
Aug 11, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 23, 2017, 4:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:03 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Jul 11, 2017, 12:00 AM