Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting qemu-kvm-common package, versions <10:1.5.3-156.8.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-QEMUKVMCOMMON-1714033
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed12 Oct 2017

Introduced: 12 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15268  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 qemu-kvm-common to version 10:1.5.3-156.8.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2018-1034.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm-common package and not the qemu-kvm-common package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 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.