CVE-2017-17381 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-17381?

CVE-2017-17381 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Dec 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17381?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2017-17381?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-17381 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17381 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-2017-17381, GHSA-6v49-9gj6-jwwc, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17381.