CVE-2017-8112: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. 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 privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via the message ring page count.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.9.1

Published 2017-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.