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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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3991-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-4346 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3414-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T18:51:07.135Z

Reserved: 2017-08-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-12809

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-23T16:29:00.210

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-12809

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-12809 - Bugzilla

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