CVE detail
CVE-2017-12809
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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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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Unit 42 discovers new QEMU vulnerability.
vendorunit42.paloaltonetworks.comSep 14, 2017, 12:00 PM
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