CVE-2017-14167

high

Published 2017-09-08 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Integer overflow in the load_multiboot function in hw/i386/multiboot.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via crafted multiboot header address values, which trigger an out-of-bounds write.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

82%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:2.10.0-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:2.10.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:2.10.0-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:2.10.0-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:2.10.0-1`
9.0	Affected	—
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.10.2"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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