Memory Leak Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-QEMU-1558075
- published 16 Jun 2017
- disclosed 16 Jun 2017
Introduced: 16 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-9374 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12
qemu
to version 1:2.8+dfsg-7 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:12
relevant fixed versions and status.
Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with USB EHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly hot-unplugging the device.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9374
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d710e1e7bd3d5bfc26b631f02ae87901ebe646b0
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/06/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459132
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98905
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9374
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d710e1e7bd3d5bfc26b631f02ae87901ebe646b0