CVE-2017-5856
Memory leak in the megasas_handle_dcmd function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) commands with the sglist size set to a value over 2 Gb.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2017-03-16
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Affected products
References
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=765a707000e838c30b18d712fe6cb3dd8e0435f3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/19
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/14
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95999
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418342
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
