PT-2017-18112 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3
Li Qiang
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Published
2017-04-25
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Updated
2020-09-10
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CVE-2017-8086
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 (aka Quick Emulator) versions prior to the fixed version
Description
A memory leak issue exists, allowing local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service through memory consumption. This issue involves the
orig value variable in the v9fs list xattr function.Recommendations
For QEMU versions prior to the fixed version, consider updating to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent memory consumption denial of service attacks.
Exploit
Fix
DoS
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Alt Linux
Qemu
Suse
Ubuntu