Memory leak in the megasas_handle_dcmd function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) commands with the sglist size set to a value over 2 Gb.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418342
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/19
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95999
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=765a707000e838c30b18d712fe6cb3dd8e0435f3
Source: MITRE
Published: 2017-03-16
Updated: 2023-02-12
Type: CWE-401
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
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