medium
6.5
CWE
401
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2017-5552

First published: Wed Mar 15 2017(Updated: )

Memory leak in the virgl_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu-3d.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
QEMU KVM<=2.8.1.1

Remedy

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=33243031dad02d161225ba99d782616da133f689

Remedy

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/17

Remedy

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/5

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