CVE-2017-9374
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with USB EHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly hot-unplugging the device.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"2.8.1.1"} | |
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d710e1e7bd3d5bfc26b631f02ae87901ebe646b0
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/06/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98905
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459132
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9374.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9374
CWEs
CWE-401
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.