CVE-2017-5552

medium

Description

Memory leak in the virgl_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu-3d.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95773

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/17

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=33243031dad02d161225ba99d782616da133f689

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-15

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00198