CVE-2017-11334 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2017-11334?

CVE-2017-11334 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The address_space_write_continue function in exec.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and guest instance crash) by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-11334?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2017-11334?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2017-11334 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-11334 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11334, GHSA-4j6c-x59q-c2c4, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11334, USN-3575-2.