vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-8379: qemu -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 23, 2017
Added
Feb 19, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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