Vulnerability CVE-2017-9060
Published: 2017-06-01

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

Type:

CWE-772

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
QEMU -> QEMU 

 References:
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=dd248ed7e204ee8a1873914e02b8b526e8f1b80d
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/19/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98632
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452597
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
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