CVE-2017-9310
medium
CVSS v3
5.6
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
5.6
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the e1000e NIC emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors related to setting the initial receive / transmit descriptor head (TDH/RDH) outside the allocated descriptor buffer.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
56%
Patch ETA
—
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
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| 9.0 | Affected | — |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"2.8.1.1"} | |
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4154c7e03fa55b4cf52509a83d50d6c09d743b7
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/31/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98766
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452620
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9310
CWEs
CWE-835
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.