QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter…
Priority LOW 25CWE-476Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-476.
Summary
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving megasas command processing.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.00415 36th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 9 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-9503
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f8cp-6xg3-m3rg
References
Patch 4
- [oss-security] 20170608 CVE-2017-9503 Qemu: scsi: null pointer dereference while processing megasas command
- [qemu-devel] 20170606 [PATCH 7/7] megasas: always store SCSIRequest* into Megasas
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459477
- [qemu-devel] 20170606 [PATCH 4/7] megasas: do not read DCMD opcode more than once
Sources
- CVE-2017-9503 · CVE Program
- CVE-2017-9503 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f8cp-6xg3-m3rg · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2017-9503 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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