CVE-2017-9373

Description

Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with IDE AHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly hot-unplugging the AHCI device.

References

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458270

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98921

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/05/1

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d68f0f778e7f4fbd674627274267f269e40f0b04

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3