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FKIE_CVE-2017-8086

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-05-02 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:25
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qemu qemu *
qemu qemu 2.9.0
qemu qemu 2.9.0
qemu qemu 2.9.0
qemu qemu 2.9.0
debian debian_linux 8.0

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