CVE-2017-8086

MEDIUM

6.5

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value variable.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.5

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published5/2/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxqemu:qemu

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-772

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781(cve@mitre.org)

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

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03(cve@mitre.org)

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

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

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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