Memory Leak Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.8.1.1)


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-3007160
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2017

CVE-2017-8086  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.8.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value variable.

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