Memory corruption in QEMU - CVE-2017-9060

 

Memory corruption in QEMU - CVE-2017-9060

Published: June 6, 2017 / Updated: June 8, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6945
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0:
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9060
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: QEMU
Affected software:
QEMU

Detailed vulnerability description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of "VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT:" commands.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9060

Update to version 2.9.0-r2.

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