CVE-2017-8086

Medium

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value variable.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Qemu

PublishedMay 2, 2017

First seenMay 2, 2017

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v ≤ 2.8.1, 2.9.0	—
debian debian_linux	8.0	—

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