PT-2017-18303 · Qemu Team+3 · Qemu+3

Published

2017-05-03

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Updated

2024-06-15

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CVE-2017-8379

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

VectorAV: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) (affected versions not specified)
Description A memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service by rapidly generating large keyboard events, resulting in host memory consumption.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2175
CVE-2017-8379
DLA-1497-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1872-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1
RHSA-2017:2408
SUSE-SU-2017:1774-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2946-1
USN-3289-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Qemu
Suse
Ubuntu