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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-5931

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.

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CVE-2017-5931
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1 Nov 2026, 08:03 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-5931

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Mar 2017, 15:59 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2017-5931
Complete source record
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