CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8309
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
Memory leak in the audio/audio.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly starting and stopping audio capture.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.9.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• redhat openstack 6.0
• redhat openstack 7.0
• redhat openstack 8
• redhat openstack 9
• redhat openstack 10
• redhat openstack 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98302 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
- 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/msg05587.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98302 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
- 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/msg05587.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 Third Party Advisory