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CVE-2017-12809

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM Emulator support, allows...

6.5 MediumFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.39%Down 0.9 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2017-12809
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2017-12809
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-4346 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2017-4346
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-2m2j-2qxm-fr56 6.5

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM Emulator support, allows...

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.

Record
GHSA-2m2j-2qxm-fr56
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2017-12809
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-12809 6.5

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12809
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-12809 6.5

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12809
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2924-1 No score

Security update for qemu

This update for qemu to version 2.9.1 fixes several issues.

It also announces that the qed storage format will be no longer supported in SLE 15 (fate#324200).

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-15268: Qemu allowed remote attackers to cause a memory leak by triggering slow data-channel read operations, related to io/channel-websock.c (bsc#1062942)
  • CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation (bsc#1063122)
  • CVE-2017-15038: Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function local guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via vectors related to reading extended attributes (bsc#1062069)
  • CVE-2017-10911: The make_response function in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS (or other guest OS) kernel memory by leveraging the copying of uninitialized padding fields in Xen block-interface response structures (bsc#1057378)
  • CVE-2017-12809: The IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM Emulator support allowed 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 (bsc#1054724)
  • CVE-2017-14167: Integer overflow in the load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via crafted multiboot header address values, which trigger an out-of-bounds write (bsc#1057585)
  • CVE-2017-13672: The VGA display emulator support allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update (bsc#1056334)
  • CVE-2017-13711: Use-after-free vulnerability allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) by leveraging failure to properly clear ifq_so from pending packets (bsc#1056291).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • Fixed not being able to build from rpm sources due to undefined macro (bsc#1057966)
  • Fiedx package build failure against new glibc (bsc#1055587)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2924-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2936-1 No score

Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-15268: Qemu allowed remote attackers to cause a memory leak by triggering slow data-channel read operations, related to io/channel-websock.c (bsc#1062942).
  • CVE-2017-9524: The qemu-nbd server when built with the Network Block Device (NBD) Server support allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and server crash) by leveraging failure to ensure that all initialization occurs talking to a client in the nbd_negotiate function (bsc#1043808).
  • CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation (bsc#1063122)
  • CVE-2017-15038: Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function local guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via vectors related to reading extended attributes (bsc#1062069)
  • CVE-2017-10911: The make_response function in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS (or other guest OS) kernel memory by leveraging the copying of uninitialized padding fields in Xen block-interface response structures (bsc#1057378)
  • CVE-2017-12809: The IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM Emulator support allowed 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 (bsc#1054724)
  • CVE-2017-10664: qemu-nbd did not ignore SIGPIPE, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by disconnecting during a server-to-client reply attempt (bsc#1046636)
  • CVE-2017-10806: Stack-based buffer overflow allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via vectors related to logging debug messages (bsc#1047674)
  • CVE-2017-14167: Integer overflow in the load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via crafted multiboot header address values, which trigger an out-of-bounds write (bsc#1057585)
  • CVE-2017-11434: The dhcp_decode function in slirp/bootp.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted DHCP options string (bsc#1049381)
  • CVE-2017-11334: The address_space_write_continue function allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and guest instance crash) by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area (bsc#1048902)
  • CVE-2017-13672: The VGA display emulator support allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update (bsc#1056334)

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • Fixed not being able to build from rpm sources due to undefined macro (bsc#1057966)
  • Fixed wrong permissions for kvm_stat.1 file
  • Fixed KVM lun resize not working as expected on SLES12 SP2 HV (bsc#1043176)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2936-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2946-1 No score

Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-10911: The make_response function in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS (or other guest OS) kernel memory by leveraging the copying of uninitialized padding fields in Xen block-interface response structures (bsc#1057378).
  • CVE-2017-12809: The IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM Emulator support allowed 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 (bsc#1054724).
  • CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation (bsc#1063122)
  • CVE-2017-15038: Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function local guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via vectors related to reading extended attributes (bsc#1062069)
  • CVE-2017-14167: Integer overflow in the load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via crafted multiboot header address values, which trigger an out-of-bounds write (bsc#1057585)
  • CVE-2017-11434: The dhcp_decode function in slirp/bootp.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted DHCP options string (bsc#1049381)
  • CVE-2017-11334: The address_space_write_continue function allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and guest instance crash) by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area (bsc#1048902)
  • CVE-2017-13672: The VGA display emulator support allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update (bsc#1056334)
  • CVE-2017-5973: A infinite loop while doing control transfer in xhci_kick_epctx allowed privileged user inside the guest to crash the host process resulting in DoS (bsc#1025109)
  • CVE-2017-5987: The sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks function in hw/sd/sdhci.c allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving the transfer mode register during multi block transfer (bsc#1025311)
  • CVE-2017-6505: The ohci_service_ed_list function allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving the number of link endpoint list descriptors (bsc#1028184)
  • CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM could have caused a heap overflow in the device model process, potentially escalating their privileges to that of the device model process (bsc#1028656)
  • CVE-2017-7718: hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to copying VGA data via the cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_ functions (bsc#1034908)
  • CVE-2017-7980: An out-of-bounds r/w access issues in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support allowed privileged user inside guest to use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on a host with privileges of Qemu process on the host (bsc#1035406)
  • CVE-2017-8112: hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via the message ring page count (bsc#1036211)
  • CVE-2017-9375: The USB xHCI controller emulator support was vulnerable to an infinite recursive call loop issue, which allowed a privileged user inside guest to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS (bsc#1042800)
  • CVE-2017-9374: Missing free of 's->ipacket', causes a host memory leak, allowing for DoS (bsc#1043073)
  • CVE-2017-9373: The IDE AHCI Emulation support was vulnerable to a host memory leakage issue, which allowed a…
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2946-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3414-1 No score

qemu vulnerabilities

Leo Gaspard discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS access control. A guest attacker could use this issue to elevate privileges inside the guest. (CVE-2017-7493)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWare PVSCSI emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources or crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-8112)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly to obtain sensitive host memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-8380)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources and crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-9060)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the e1000e device. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-9310)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI emulation support. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9330)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled IDE AHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources and crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9373)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources and crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9374)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9375)

Zhangyanyu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9503)

It was discovered that the QEMU qemu-nbd server incorrectly handled initialization. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9524)

It was discovered that the QEMU qemu-nbd server incorrectly handled signals. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10664)

Li Qiang discovered that the QEMU USB redirector incorrectly handled logging debug messages. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10806)

Anthony Perard discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Xen block-interface responses. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to leak contents of host memory. (CVE-2017-10911)

Reno Robert discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain DHCP options strings. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-11434)

Ryan Salsamendi discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled empty CDROM device drives. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-12809)

Record
USN-3414-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
qemu
Debian:12
before 1:2.10.0-1
1:2.10.0-1
qemu
Debian:13
before 1:2.10.0-1
1:2.10.0-1
qemu
Debian:14
before 1:2.10.0-1
1:2.10.0-1
qemu
Debian:9
before 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u3, plus listed versions
1:2.8+dfsg-61:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u11:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u2
1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u3
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
before 2.9.1-6.6.3
2.9.1-6.6.3
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
before 2.9.1-6.6.3
2.9.1-6.6.3
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
before 2.9.1-6.6.3
2.9.1-6.6.3
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
before 2.6.2-41.22.2
2.6.2-41.22.2
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
before 2.6.2-41.22.2
2.6.2-41.22.2
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
before 2.6.2-41.22.2
2.6.2-41.22.2
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
before 2.6.2-41.22.2
2.6.2-41.22.2
qemu
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
before 2.3.1-33.3.3
2.3.1-33.3.3
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
before 2.3.1-33.3.3
2.3.1-33.3.3
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
before 2.3.1-33.3.3
2.3.1-33.3.3
qemu
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15, plus listed versions
1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu91:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu101:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu11:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu21:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu3
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1:2.4+dfsg-5ubuntu31:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu21:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu31:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu41:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu51:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu11:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu21:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu41:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu61:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu71:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu101:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.21:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.31:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.41:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.61:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.71:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.81:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.91:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.101:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.111:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.131:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.14
1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
qemu
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35, plus listed versions
1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu51.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu61.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu11.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu21.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu3
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1.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu11.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu21.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu31.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu51.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu71.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu81.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu91.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu1~ppa11.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu11.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu21.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu31.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu51.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu61.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu72.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu12.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu22.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu32.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu3.12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.32.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.52.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.62.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.72.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.82.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.92.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.102.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.112.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.132.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.142.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.152.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.162.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.172.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.182.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.192.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.202.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.212.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.222.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.242.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.252.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-12809 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Qemu, published August 23, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.39%, the 32nd percentile. Fixed in qemu 1:2.10.0-1.

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