CVE-2017-8086
First published: Mon Apr 24 2017(Updated: )
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the virtio-9p back-end support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while querying file system extended attributes via 9pfs_list_xattr() routine. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to leak host memory resulting in Dos. Upstream patch: --------------- -> <a href="http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2">http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2</a> Reference: ---------- -> <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5</a>
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <=2.8.1 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.9.0-rc0 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.9.0-rc1 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.9.0-rc2 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.9.0-rc3 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1444783
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1444782
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
- alias/CVE-2017-8086
- collector/nvd-index
- vendor/qemu
- canonical/qemu qemu
- version/qemu qemu/2.8.1
- version/qemu qemu/2.9.0-rc0
- version/qemu qemu/2.9.0-rc1
- version/qemu qemu/2.9.0-rc2
- version/qemu qemu/2.9.0-rc3
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/8.0