vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-13711: Security patch for qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1034)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 1, 2017
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

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.

Solutions

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Title
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