CVE-2017-5552

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=33243031dad02d161225ba99d782616da133f689
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/17
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95773
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=33243031dad02d161225ba99d782616da133f689
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/17
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95773
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28