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CVE-2017-12809 (GCVE-0-2017-12809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-23 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:51
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/201… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2017-08-09 00:00
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