CVE-2017-8379
Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2017-05-23
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Affected products
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/03/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98277
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05599.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
