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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-9060): QEMU vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Jun 1, 2017

Added

Sep 13, 2017

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of "VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT:" commands.

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

References

CVE-2017-9060
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-9060
CWE-401
EUVD-EUVD-2017-17999
NVD-CVE-2017-9060
UBUNTU-USN-3414-1
UBUNTU-USN-3414-2
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-17999

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