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CVSSv2

CVE-2017-8379

Published: 23/05/2017 Updated: 04/08/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 4 | Exploitability Score: 2
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Several security issues were fixed in QEMU ...
Debian Bug report logs - #860785 qemu: CVE-2017-7471: 9p: virtfs allows guest to change filesystem attributes on host Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 05:18:02 UTC Sever ...
Debian Bug report logs - #861348 qemu: CVE-2017-8086: 9pfs: host memory leakage via v9pfs_list_xattr Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:45:02 UTC Severity: normal Tags: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #861351 qemu: CVE-2017-8112: scsi: vmw_pvscsi: infinite loop in pvscsi_log2 Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:09:01 UTC Severity: normal Tags ...
Debian Bug report logs - #862289 qemu: CVE-2017-8379: host memory lekage via keyboard events Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 16:45:01 UTC Severity: minor Tags: patch, s ...
Debian Bug report logs - #862282 qemu: CVE-2017-8380: scsi: megasas: out-of-bounds read in megasas_mmio_write Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:09:04 UTC Severity: nor ...
Debian Bug report logs - #862280 qemu: CVE-2017-8309: audio: host memory leakage via capture buffer Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:57:04 UTC Severity: minor Tags: f ...
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 ...