CVE-2017-12809
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12809
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12809.html
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 9.0 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.10.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.10.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.10.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.10.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.10.0-1 |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12809.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12809
CWEs
CWE-476
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.