Use After Free Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.10.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.11% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007102
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-13711  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.10.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the sofree function in slirp/socket.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) by leveraging failure to properly clear ifq_so from pending packets.

CVSS Scores

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