CVE-2017-8086

Impact

Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value variable.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781
• 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
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781
• 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