Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Scope
Changed
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-521294
- published 2 May 2017
- disclosed 2 May 2017
Introduced: 2 May 2017
CVE-2017-8112 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 1:2.8+dfsg-5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8112
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04578.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/26/5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445621
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98015
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-8112