NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.10.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007030
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Aug 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.10.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. 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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