CVE-2017-12809 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5