CVE-2017-8379
Published: 3 May 2017
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | trusty and earlier don't support keyboard delays |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Does not exist
|
| trusty |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
| xenial |
Released
(1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.14)
|
|
| yakkety |
Released
(1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.5)
|
|
| zesty |
Released
(1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.2)
|
|
|
Patches: upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fa18f36a461984eae50ab957e47ec78dae3c14fc upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=05c6638b203fd7d8bbfa88ac6e6198e32ed0506f |
||
|
qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
| xenial |
Does not exist
|
|
| yakkety |
Does not exist
|
|
| zesty |
Does not exist
|
|
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 6.5 |
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |