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CVE-2017-17381
The Virtio Vring implementation in QEMU allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.41%
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- mitre
Description
The Virtio Vring implementation in QEMU allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) by unsetting vring alignment while updating Virtio rings.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- [oss-security] 20171205 CVE-2017-17381 Qemu: virtio: divide by zero exception while updating rings (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4213 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 102059 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-3575-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20171201 [PULL 6/7] virtio: check VirtQueue Vring object is set (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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