CVE-2017-8379

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedMay 23, 2017
First seenMay 23, 2017

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemuv ≤ 2.9.1—
debian debian_linux8.0—
redhat openstack6.0, 7.0, 8, 9, 10, 11—

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