CVE-2017-12809

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 23, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Aug 11, 2017

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

DSA-3991vendor-advisory
[qemu-devel] 20170809 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] IDE: Do not flush empty CDROM drivesmailing-list
100451vdb-entry
[oss-security] 20170821 CVE-2017-12809 Qemu: ide: flushing of empty CDROM drives leads to NULL dereferencemailing-list

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