CVE-2017-15268 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Qemu

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption12 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV4.4
EPSS
2.0%
top 16.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
QemuDebian Qemu
Timeline
PublishedOct 12
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Qemu through 2.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a memory leak by triggering slow data-channel read operations, related to io/channel-websock.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/qemu< qemu 1:2.11+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianqemu/qemu< 1:2.11+dfsg-1+3
▶Ubuntuqemu/qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.39+3
▶NVDqemu/qemu2.10.0

Patches

Patch: bugs.launchpad.net ↗Patch: lists.gnu.org ↗Patch: bugs.launchpad.net ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-qjr3-vg76-3637: Qemu through 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
qemu regression↗2018-03-05
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OSV
qemu vulnerabilities↗2018-02-20
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OSV
CVE-2017-15268: Qemu through 2↗2017-10-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
QEMU regression↗2018-03-05
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Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2018-02-20
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Red Hat
QEMU: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC↗2017-09-22
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Debian
CVE-2017-15268: qemu - Qemu through 2.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a memory leak by triggering...↗2017
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15268. xen: CVE-2017-15268. . Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC [fedora-all]↗2017-09-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15268. qemu: CVE-2017-15268. . Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC [fedora-all]↗2017-09-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15268 QEMU: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC↗2017-09-28
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