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CVE-2017-12809
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-23T16:29:00.210 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:03:58.387

Summary

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.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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