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CVE-2017-8309 Qemu: audio: host memory leakage via capture buffer
From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 14:19:40 +0530 (IST)
Hello,Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the Audio subsystem support is vulnerable to a host memory leakage issue. It could occur if a guest user was to repeatedly start and stop audio capture.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to exhaust host memory, resulting in DoS.
Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05587.html Reference: ---------- -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446517 This issue was reported by Jiang Xin (PSIRT Huawei inc.) 'CVE-2017-8309' allocated via -> http://cveform.mitre.org/ Thank you. -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team 47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F
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