CVE-2017-9373: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with IDE AHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly hot-unplugging the AHCI device.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1.1; version 2.9.0 only

Published 2017-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.