CVE-2017-10806

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in hw/usb/redirect.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via vectors related to logging debug messages.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
QEMU: through 2.9.1

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3925
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/07/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99475
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468496
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg03087.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3925
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/07/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99475
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468496
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg03087.html

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