CVE-2017-9060 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=dd248ed7e204ee8a1873914e02b8b526e8f1b80d http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/19/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98632 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452597 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5