Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-12809
CVE-2017-12809
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.
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Affected products
16- osv-coords10 versionspkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%206
< 2.6.2-41.22.2+ 9 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.22.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.1-6.6.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-33.3.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.22.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.1-6.6.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.22.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-33.3.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.22.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.1-6.6.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-33.3.3
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.htmlnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/21/2nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/100451nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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