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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-15268: Security patch for qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1034)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-15268: Security patch for qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1034)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/12/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Qemu through 2.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a memory leak by triggering slow data-channel read operations, related to io/channel-websock.c.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm

References

  • ALAS-2018-1034
  • USN-3575-1
  • USN-3575-2
  • DSA-4213
  • CVE-2017-15268

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