Vulnerability CVE-2017-9373
Published: 2017-06-16   Modified: 2017-06-17

Description:
Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with IDE AHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly hot-unplugging the AHCI device.

Type:

CWE-772

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.9/10
2.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
QEMU -> QEMU 

 References:
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d68f0f778e7f4fbd674627274267f269e40f0b04
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/05/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98921
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458270
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
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