vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-8112: qemu -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2017
Added
Feb 19, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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