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Debian: CVE-2017-5856: qemu -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-5856: qemu -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/16/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/19/2019
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

Memory leak in the megasas_handle_dcmd function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) commands with the sglist size set to a value over 2 Gb.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-qemu

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