CVE-2007-2894
The emulated floppy disk controller in Bochs 2.3 allows local users of the guest operating system to cause a denial of service (virtual…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.73%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The emulated floppy disk controller in Bochs 2.3 allows local users of the guest operating system to cause a denial of service (virtual machine crash) via unspecified vectors, resulting in a divide-by-zero error.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Bochs 2.3 - Buffer Overflow (Denial of Service) (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 30110dos, linuxpublished 31 May 2007Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.73% · top 46% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188148 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 27715 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 42119 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- GLSA-200711-21 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 24246 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1936 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- bochs-floppy-disk-dos(34513) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 25470 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-2886 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-2894)Record last updated .