CVE-2017-9060

medium

Description

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

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452597

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

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/19/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-01

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: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium