SB2017101029 - Denial of service in QEMU
Published: October 10, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017101029
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15268)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoІ condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in io/channel-websock.c due to memory leak in slow data-channel read operations. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.