CVE-2017-5857
First published: Wed Feb 01 2017(Updated: )
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a host memory leakage issue. It could occur while processing 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_UNREF' command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory resulting in DoS. Upstream patch: --------------- -> <a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg04615.html">https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg04615.html</a> Reference: ---------- -> <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/21">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/21</a>
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <=2.8.1.1 |
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Reference Links
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg04615.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/21
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1418383
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418382
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5e8e3c4c75c199aa1017db816fca02be2a9f8798
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/16
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95993
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
- alias/CVE-2017-5857
- collector/nvd-index
- vendor/qemu
- canonical/qemu qemu
- version/qemu qemu/2.8.1.1