CVE-2017-8379medium
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
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05599.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98277
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/03/2
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2017-05-23
Updated: 2021-08-04
Type: CWE-772
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