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CVE-2017-5931
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-27T15:59:00.547 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:21:27.627

Summary

Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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