CVE-2017-5987: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. 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 OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving the transfer mode register during multi block transfer.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
  • Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1.1; version 2.9.0 only

Published 2017-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.