CVE-2017-8112

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via the message ring page count.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
QEMU: through 2.9.1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/26/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98015
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445621
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04578.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/26/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98015
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445621
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04578.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

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