CVE-2017-5667

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2017-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks function in hw/sd/sdhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap access and crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors involving the data transfer length.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
QEMU: through 2.8.1.1

References

http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=42922105beb14c2fc58185ea022b9f72fb5465e9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/30/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/12/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95885
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417559
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=42922105beb14c2fc58185ea022b9f72fb5465e9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/30/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/12/1

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