CVE-2017-5526

medium

Description

Memory leak in hw/audio/es1370.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of device unplug operations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95669

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/8

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/1

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=069eb7b2b8fc47c7cb52e5a4af23ea98d939e3da

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-03-15

Updated: 2023-02-12

Type: CWE-401

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Impact Score: 4

Exploitability Score: 2

Severity: MEDIUM