CVE-2017-9310

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the e1000e NIC emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors related to setting the initial receive / transmit descriptor head (TDH/RDH) outside the allocated descriptor buffer.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
QEMU: through 2.8.1.1

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4154c7e03fa55b4cf52509a83d50d6c09d743b7
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/31/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98766
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452620
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4154c7e03fa55b4cf52509a83d50d6c09d743b7
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/31/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98766

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