CVE-2017-5667
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
The sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks function in hw/sd/sdhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap access and crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors involving the data transfer length.
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 | 1:2.8+dfsg-3 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-3 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-3 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-3 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-3 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"2.8.1.1"} | |
References
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=42922105beb14c2fc58185ea022b9f72fb5465e9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/30/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/12/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95885
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417559
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5667.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5667
CWEs
CWE-125
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.