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CVE-2017-5579

Published: 3/15/2017 Last updated: 8/5/2024 Reserved: 1/25/2017

Memory leak in the serial_exit_core function in hw/char/serial.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of device unplug operations.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (2)

conf-qemu-img nbd-tool

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a n/a

References (16)