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CVE-2017-8379

Date: May 22, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8379
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05599.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/03/2
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8379
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8379
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-8379
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98277
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-8379

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CWE-772

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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