Resource Exhaustion Affecting qemu-kvm package, versions <10:1.5.3-156.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-QEMUKVM-2100588
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Sept 2017

Introduced: 22 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-15268  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 qemu-kvm to version 10:1.5.3-156.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm package and not the qemu-kvm package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 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.