CVE-2017-9310 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in QEMU's e1000e NIC emulation, affecting various QEMU and Debian Linux distributions. A local, privileged guest OS user can trigger an infinite loop by manipulating receive/transmit descriptor heads outside allocated buffers. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.6) requires high attack complexity and local access, but can lead to a complete denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating low current threat visibility.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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