CVE-2017-8379
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-23 03:56
Modified
2024-08-05 16:34
Severity ?
Summary
Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/03/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98277Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05599.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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