Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5578

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-15 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 15:04:15
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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