Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.11+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.71% (81st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-QEMU-428198
- published 12 Oct 2017
- disclosed 12 Oct 2017
Introduced: 12 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15268 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
qemu
to version 1:2.11+dfsg-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.
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15268
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1718964
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101277
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-15268
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/