CVE-2017-9310: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the e1000e NIC emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors related to setting the initial receive / transmit descriptor head (TDH/RDH) outside the allocated descriptor buffer.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1.1

Published 2017-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.