Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.
References
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/03/2 | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98277 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 | Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05599.html | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-05-23T03:56:00
Updated: 2018-09-07T09:57:01
Reserved: 2017-04-30T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-8379
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-05-23T04:29:02.180
Modified: 2021-08-04T17:15:35.690
Link: CVE-2017-8379
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE