CVE-2017-8379

medium

Description

Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.

References

Advisories

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05599.html

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98277

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/03/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-23

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