CVE-2017-17381

Qemu: virtio: divide by zero exception while updating rings

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.4

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 24, 2017

Updated · June 28, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 2.3
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-369 · Divide By Zero