CVE-2017-5579

medium

Description

Memory leak in the serial_exit_core function in hw/char/serial.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

Advisories
More

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

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95780

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/8

http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8409dc884a201bf74b30a9d232b6bbdd00cb7e2b

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: 0.00137