CVE-2017-17381
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.11+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.11+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.11+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.11+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.11+dfsg-1 |
| 9.0 | Affected | — |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/05/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102059
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg00166.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17381.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17381
CWEs
CWE-369
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.