CVE-2017-9503

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Published 2017-06-16 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving megasas command processing.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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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":"2.9.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.