Vulnerability CVE-2017-8112
Published: 2017-05-02

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.

Type:

CWE-835

 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
QEMU -> QEMU 

 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
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