UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12809
Moderate
UBUNTU-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.
Exploit probability
Not scored
Published
August 23, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
February 4, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
29 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12809
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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.
05 / REFERENCES