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Debian: CVE-2017-17381: qemu -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-17381: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/31/2018
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

The Virtio Vring implementation in QEMU allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) by unsetting vring alignment while updating Virtio rings.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-qemu

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