DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12809

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2017-12809
Downstream
DSA-3991-1
Published: 23 Aug 2017, 16:29
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:16

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
3.1 (osv_debian)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 Aug 2017, 16:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:16
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

Affected Systems

  • debian•qemu

    < 1:2.10.0-1 | < 1:2.10.0-1 | < 1:2.10.0-1 | < 1:2.10.0-1

References (1)