Memory Leak Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007157
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.9.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. Memory leak in the virgl_cmd_resource_unref function in hw/display/virtio-gpu-3d.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_UNREF commands sent without detaching the backing storage beforehand.

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