PT-2017-12702 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Kieron Shorrock · Published 2017-08-23 · Updated 2020-11-10 · CVE-2017-12809

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) versions (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service by flushing an empty CDROM device drive, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash. This occurs when QEMU is built with the IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM Emulator support.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2175

CVE-2017-12809

DSA-3991-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_2938-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_2941-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2924-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2936-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2946-1

USN-3414-1

USN-3414-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 173

• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-4285.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-01803 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9375 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8380 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12809 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12809 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-4289.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14167 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12809 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11434 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3414-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13711 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15038 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9373 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-2175 · Vendor Advisory