CVE-2017-5856
First published: Wed Feb 01 2017(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU KVM | <=2.8.1.1 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=765a707000e838c30b18d712fe6cb3dd8e0435f3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/19
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1418344
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418342
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=765a707000e838c30b18d712fe6cb3dd8e0435f3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/14
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95999
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
- alias/CVE-2017-5856
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- vendor/qemu
- canonical/qemu kvm
- version/qemu kvm/2.8.1.1
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/8.0