CVE-2017-8112

medium

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.

References

Advisories

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04578.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445621

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98015

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/26/5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-02

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H