CVE-2017-8112

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-835
Published: 2017-05-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:debian_linux
qemu:qemu

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

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