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CVE-2017-12809 Qemu: ide: flushing of empty CDROM drives leads to NULL dereference
From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:50:48 +0530 (IST)
Hello,Quick emulator built with the IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM Emulator support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference issue. It could occur while flushing an empty CDROM device drive.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01850.html 'CVE-2017-12809' assigned via -> https://cveform.mitre.org/ Thank you. -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team 47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F
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