CVE-2017-5667: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks function in hw/sd/sdhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap access and crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors involving the data transfer length.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
  • Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1.1

Published 2017-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.