NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting qemu-kvm-common-rhev package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-QEMUKVMCOMMONRHEV-5061965
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed11 Jul 2017

Introduced: 11 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-12809  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 qemu-kvm-common-rhev.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm-common-rhev package and not the qemu-kvm-common-rhev package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Scores

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