Ubuntu.comUB:CVE-2017-5579CVE-2017-5579
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
25.9%
Memory leak in the serial_exit_core function in hw/char/serial.c in QEMU
(aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a
denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a
large number of device unplug operations.
Bugs
- <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416157>
- <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853002>
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| tyhicks | affected code is in hw/serial.c in qemu-kvm on 12.04. serial_init_core() allocates a number of things but there is no serial_exit_core() present. |
Related
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
25.9%