CVE-2017-16845

critical
Published 2017-11-17 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
10.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
6.4
VIR risk
10.0

Description

hw/input/ps2.c in Qemu does not validate 'rptr' and 'count' values during guest migration, leading to out-of-bounds access.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
98%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16845

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16845.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg02982.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu17.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.04affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.12~rc3+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.12~rc3+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.12~rc3+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.12~rc3+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.12~rc3+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.11.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.