GSD-2017-5856

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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Memory leak in the megasas_handle_dcmd 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.
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CVE-2017-5856
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