vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-8379: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 23, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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