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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.4

CVE-2017-11334 json

The address_space_write_continue function in exec.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial o…

published 2017-08-02 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-2968

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The address_space_write_continue function in exec.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and guest instance crash) by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area.

Patch / fix

  • qemu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:2.8+dfsg-7

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11334

  • qemu-kvm-rhev RHEL 7, openstack 11, openstack 10 +4 more 10:2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
  • qemu-img-rhev RHEL 7, openstack 11, openstack 10 +4 more 10:2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
  • qemu-kvm-tools-rhev RHEL 7, openstack 11, openstack 10 +4 more 10:2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
  • qemu-kvm-common-rhev RHEL 7, openstack 11, openstack 10 +4 more 10:2.9.0-16.el7_4.11

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:3470RHSA-2017:3471RHSA-2017:3466RHSA-2017:3472RHSA-2017:3474RHSA-2017:3473

  • xen SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 4.2.5_21-45.19.1
  • kvm SLES 11 SP3-TERADATA, SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 1.4.2-53.11.1
  • kvm SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 1.4.2-60.3.1
  • qemu SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 2.3.1-33.3.3
  • qemu SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +1 more 2.6.2-41.22.2
  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 4.4.4_22-61.9.2
  • qemu SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 2.9.0-6.3.1
  • xen SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 4.2.5_21-45.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0678-1SUSE-SU-2017:3084-1SUSE-SU-2017:2969-1SUSE-SU-2017:2963-1SUSE-SU-2017:2946-1SUSE-SU-2017:2936-1

  • qemu openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.1.0-32.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-11334 updated cvss 5.5

Qemu: exec: oob access during dma operation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) qemu-kvm-rhev
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3473
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3472
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3471
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3470
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3474
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3466
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3369
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm, xen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-guest-agent-win32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-kvm-tools, libcacard-tools, qemu-kvm-common, +1 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, qemu-kvm-common-rhev
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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