CVE-2016-7155: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. 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 administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or infinite loop, and QEMU process crash) via a crafted page count for descriptor rings.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1

Published 2016-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.