CVE-2017-8086

MEDIUM

QEMU < 2.8.1 - Denial of Service via Memory Leak in v9fs_list_xattr

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 22.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-772
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
qemu/qemu 2.9.0 rc0 (4 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu < 2.8.1
Published May 02, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026