CVE-2017-9503

MEDIUM

QEMU - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving megasas command processing.

References (7)

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/08/1

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99010

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459477

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00020.html

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg01309.html

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg01313.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 21.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (4)

qemu/qemu < 2.9.1

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

n/a/n/a

Published Jun 16, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026