CVE-2017-17381: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Virtio Vring implementation in QEMU allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) by unsetting vring alignment while updating Virtio rings.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.10.2; version 2.11.0 only

Published 2017-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.