The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the !megasashandledcmd function in the hw/scsi/megasas.c file of the QEMU hardware emulation software is related to a memory leak. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating locally, to trigger a service failure memory consumption through specially craft...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5856

Memory leak in the megasashandledcmd function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service host memory consumption via MegaRAID Firmware Interface MFI commands with the sglist size set to a value over 2 Gb...

PT-2017-1508

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a memory leak in the megasas handle dcmd function, which can be exploited by local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service through host memory consumption...