Memory Leak Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.10.0)


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-3007158
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2017

CVE-2017-8379  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.10.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.

CVSS Scores

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