PT-2017-1501 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3
Published
2017-02-27
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Updated
2024-06-15
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CVE-2017-5579
CVSS v3.1
6.5
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
QEMU (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to a memory leak in the
serial exit core function, which can be exploited by a local guest OS privileged user to cause a denial of service. This can lead to host memory consumption and a QEMU process crash via a large number of device unplug operations.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
DoS
Memory Leak
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Alt Linux
Qemu
Suse
Ubuntu