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CVE-2017-12809
Published: Aug 23, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
DSA-3991
vendor-advisory
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[qemu-devel] 20170809 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] IDE: Do not flush empty CDROM drives
mailing-list
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100451
vdb-entry
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[oss-security] 20170821 CVE-2017-12809 Qemu: ide: flushing of empty CDROM drives leads to NULL dereference
mailing-list
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