VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-12809

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM

EPSS probability0.39%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2017-08-23

Last modified2026-06-17

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

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org — Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Third Party Advisory