CVE-2017-17381

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2017-17381 · Published 07/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17381 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting qemu (qemu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.41%, higher than 35.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
qemu qemu	`= 2.11.0≤ 2.10.2`	No fix yet

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.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/05/2 · Mailing List
securityfocus.com/bid/102059 · Third Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg00166.html · Issue Tracking
usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1 · Third Party Advisory
debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

qemu

= 2.11.0≤ 2.10.2

No fix yet

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