vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-5578: qemu -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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