CVE-2017-10664: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

qemu-nbd in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) does not ignore SIGPIPE, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by disconnecting during a server-to-client reply attempt.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.9.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.4 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.4 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Openstack: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only

Published 2017-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.