CVE-2017-5667 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2017-5667?

CVE-2017-5667 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 16 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-5667?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2017-5667?

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-2017-5667 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5667 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 ALPINE-CVE-2017-5667, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5667, GHSA-68jp-963w-w97x, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5667.