CVE-2017-12809

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 7
Modified
Published: 23 Aug 2017, 16:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 18:51

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.07% LOW
0% probability -0.03%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 Aug 2017, 16:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 18:51
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 20%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    9.0

  • qemu•qemu

    ≤ 2.9.1 | 2.10.0:rc0 | 2.10.0:rc1 | 2.10.0:rc2

References (4)