CVE-2017-17381

MEDIUM

QEMU < 2.10.2 - Denial of Service via Virtio Vring Alignment Update

Title source: llm

Description

The Virtio Vring implementation in QEMU allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) by unsetting vring alignment while updating Virtio rings.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/05/2

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102059

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg00166.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 39.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-369

Status published

Products (3)

debian/debian_linux 9.0

qemu/qemu 2.11.0 rc0 (4 CPE variants)

qemu/qemu < 2.10.2

Published Dec 07, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026