CVE-2017-12809

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 23, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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