CVE-2017-12809 | BDVDB-2026-89460 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-08-23Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.