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CVE-2017-5579 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability | Release Alert

CVE-2017-5579

6.5

MEDIUMCVSS v3

Published

March 15, 2017

CVSS v2

4.9 MEDIUM

Affected

5 projects

Assigned by

Red Hat

Severity scale

010

Description

Memory leak in the serial_exit_core function in hw/char/serial.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of device unplug operations.

qemu-project/qemu

GitLabQEMU main repository: Please see https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

<= 2.8.1.1, = 2.9.0NVD

qemu/qemu

GitHubOfficial QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

<= 2.8.1.1, = 2.9.0NVD

More on this CVE

NVD↗GitHub Advisory↗

bonzini/qemu

GitHubMy QEMU tree

<= 2.8.1.1, = 2.9.0NVD

birkelund/qemu

<= 2.8.1.1, = 2.9.0NVD

thuth/qemu

GitLabQEMU mirror for GitLab CI: Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

<= 2.8.1.1, = 2.9.0NVD