CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5578
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.8.1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/23/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95781 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/23/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95781 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28 Third Party Advisory