CVE-2016-10155

MEDIUM

6.0

Description

Memory leak in hw/watchdog/wdt_i6300esb.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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.0

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredHIGH

User InteractionNONE

Published3/15/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxqemu:qemu

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-401

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb7a20a3616085d46aa6b4b4224e15587ec67e6e(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/14(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/4(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95770(cve@mitre.org)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392(cve@mitre.org)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28(cve@mitre.org)

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb7a20a3616085d46aa6b4b4224e15587ec67e6e(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/14(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95770(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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