CVE-2017-12809
MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 23, 2017 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:03 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxQEMU
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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.htmlCVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476
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