CVE-2017-8379

Description

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05599.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98277

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/03/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3