What is CVE-2017-8112?

CVE-2017-8112 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-05-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-8112?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Qemu

CVE-2017-8112

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.

Published 2017-05-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (32.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Qemu
Debian Linux — versions 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/26/5 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98015 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04578.html (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8112?: CVE-2017-8112 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-05-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-8112?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.