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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.6

CVE-2017-9310 json

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the e1000e NIC emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of se…

published 2017-06-08 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18245

cvss
5.6
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the e1000e NIC emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors related to setting the initial receive / transmit descriptor head (TDH/RDH) outside the allocated descriptor buffer.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9310

  • qemu-kvm-rhev openstack 11, openstack 10, openstack 9 +3 more 10:2.9.0-10.el7
  • qemu-img-rhev openstack 11, openstack 10, openstack 9 +3 more 10:2.9.0-10.el7
  • qemu-kvm-tools-rhev openstack 11, openstack 10, openstack 9 +3 more 10:2.9.0-10.el7
  • qemu-kvm-common-rhev openstack 11, openstack 10, openstack 9 +3 more 10:2.9.0-10.el7
  • qemu-kvm-rhev RHEL 7 10:2.9.0-14.el7
  • qemu-img-rhev RHEL 7 10:2.9.0-14.el7
  • qemu-kvm-tools-rhev RHEL 7 10:2.9.0-14.el7
  • qemu-kvm-common-rhev RHEL 7 10:2.9.0-14.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2408RHSA-2017:2392

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-2017-9310 updated cvss 3.0

Qemu: net: infinite loop in e1000e NIC emulation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) qemu-kvm-rhev
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-10.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2408
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts qemu-img-rhev 2.9.0-14.el7, qemu-kvm-rhev 2.9.0-14.el7, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev 2.9.0-14.el7, qemu-kvm-common-rhev 2.9.0-14.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2392
  • 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
    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

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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