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CVE-2017-9503

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 16, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
1.9 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.3 LOW
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
3.4 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9503
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

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.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
QemuQemu*2.9.1 (including)
QemuUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
QemuUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
QemuUbuntutrusty*
QemuUbuntutrusty/esm*
QemuUbuntuxenial*
QemuUbuntuyakkety*
QemuUbuntuzesty*
Qemu-kvmUbuntuprecise/esm*

Potential Mitigations

References

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