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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-9373: qemu-kvm security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-9373: qemu-kvm security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/16/2017
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/19/2019

Description

Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with IDE AHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly hot-unplugging the AHCI device.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-qemu-img
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common

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