CVE-2017-5578 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Qemu

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime10 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.2%
top 58.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
QemuDebian Qemu
Timeline
PublishedMar 15
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.0 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/qemu< qemu 1:2.10.0-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianqemu/qemu< 1:2.10.0-1+3
▶Ubuntuqemu/qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33+1
▶NVDqemu/qemu2.8.1.1

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-q2vm-m3p4-mpg8: Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu↗2022-05-13
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OSV
qemu vulnerabilities↗2017-04-20
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OSV
CVE-2017-5578: Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu↗2017-03-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2017-04-25
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Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2017-04-20
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Red Hat
Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: host memory leakage in virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing↗2017-01-03
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Debian
CVE-2017-5578: qemu - Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/vir...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5578 Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: host memory leakage in virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing↗2017-01-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5578 Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: host memory leakage in virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing [fedora-all]↗2017-01-23
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