CVE-2017-8112
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-5 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-5 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-5 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-5 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-5 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"2.9.1"} | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/26/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98015
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445621
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04578.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8112.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8112
CWEs
CWE-835
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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.