Debian: CVE-2017-8086: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
05/02/2017
07/25/2018
05/30/2017
02/24/2020
Description
Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value variable.
Solution(s)
- debian-upgrade-qemu
- debian-upgrade-qemu-kvm
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