Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting qemu-kvm-common package, versions <10:1.5.3-86.el7_1.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.26% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-QEMUKVMCOMMON-4560250
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Mar 2015

Introduced: 23 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-1779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 qemu-kvm-common to version 10:1.5.3-86.el7_1.8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:1943.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm-common package and not the qemu-kvm-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The VNC websocket frame decoder in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section.

CVSS Scores

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