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SUSE: CVE-2017-12809: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-12809: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/02/2017
Modified
06/20/2021

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-qemu
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-arm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-curl
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-iscsi
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-rbd
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-ssh
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ipxe
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-lang
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ppc
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-s390
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-seabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-sgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-tools
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-vgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-x86

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:2924-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2936-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2946-1
  • DSA-3991
  • 100451
  • CVE-2017-12809
  • USN-3414-1
  • USN-3414-2
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