What is CVE-2017-5667?

CVE-2017-5667 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-03-16.

How severe is CVE-2017-5667?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Qemu

CVE-2017-5667

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.004 (36.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Qemu
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5667?: CVE-2017-5667 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-03-16.
How severe is CVE-2017-5667?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.