CVE-2017-7377
First published: Fri Mar 31 2017(Updated: )
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the virtio-9p back-end support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while doing a I/O operation via v9fs_create/v9fs_lcreate routine. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to leak host memory resulting in Dos. Upstream patch: --------------- -> <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05449.html">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05449.html</a> Reference: ---------- -> <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/03/2">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/03/2</a>
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU KVM | <=2.8.1 | |
| QEMU KVM | =2.9.0-rc0 | |
| QEMU KVM | =2.9.0-rc1 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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Reference Links
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05449.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/03/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1437873
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1437872
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437871
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d63fb193e71644a073b77ff5ac6f1216f2f6cf6e
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97319
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d63fb193e71644a073b77ff5ac6f1216f2f6cf6e
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