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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5525: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Mar 15, 2017

Added

Aug 22, 2024

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

Description

Memory leak in hw/audio/ac97.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of device unplug operations.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu

References

CVE-2017-5525
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-5525
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5525
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-14628
CWE-401
EUVD-EUVD-2017-14628

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