CVE-2017-8086

MEDIUM

Qemu < 2.8.1 - Resource Leak

Title source: rule

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)

[Patch] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 22.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-772

Status published

Affected Products (7)

qemu/qemu < 2.8.1

qemu/qemu

debian/debian_linux

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published May 02, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026