CVE-2017-7377: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) v9fs_create and (2) v9fs_lcreate functions in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allow local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (file descriptor or memory consumption) via vectors related to an already in-use fid.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1; version 2.9.0 only

Published 2017-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.