CVE-2017-5931

HIGH8.8EPSS 0.07%
Published: 3/27/2017Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-5931DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5931

Description

Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)