Memory Leak Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.10.0-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Scope
Changed
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-QEMU-427369
- published 15 Mar 2017
- disclosed 15 Mar 2017
Introduced: 15 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-5578 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
qemu
to version 1:2.10.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5578
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5578
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/23/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95781
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5578
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b