CVE-2017-5578

Impact

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.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=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/23/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95781
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/23/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95781
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28