CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8086
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-02
- 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-772
Description
Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value variable.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.8.1)
• qemu qemu 2.9.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2 git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2 git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 Third Party Advisory