Resource Exhaustion Affecting qemu-img-ma package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-QEMUIMGMA-2834703
  • 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?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 qemu-img-ma.

NVD Description

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