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CVE-2017-17381

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-17381 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting QEMU's Virtio Vring implementation, specifically impacting Debian and QEMU products. A local guest OS user can trigger a divide-by-zero error and crash the QEMU process by manipulating vring alignment during Virtio ring updates. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability requires local access and has a high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.11.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.11.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.11.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.11.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-ma
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-17381Low

Qemu: virtio: divide by zero exception while updating rings

Nov 24, 2017

References

lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg00166.html
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3575-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4213
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/12/05/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/102059
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry