vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-5856): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2017
Added
Apr 21, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-systemubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-aarch64ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-armubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-mipsubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-miscubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-ppcubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-s390xubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-sparcubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86
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