Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting qemu-img package, versions <10:1.5.3-156.amzn2.2.3
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- published27 Sept 2021
- disclosed12 Oct 2017
Introduced: 12 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15268 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 qemu-img to version 10:1.5.3-156.amzn2.2.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2018-1034.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-img package and not the qemu-img package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
Qemu through 2.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a memory leak by triggering slow data-channel read operations, related to io/channel-websock.c.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101277
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1718964
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15268
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg02278.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1104
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/