High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 9, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-15124
CVE-2017-15124
Description
VNC server implementation in Quick Emulator (QEMU) 2.11.0 and older was found to be vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation issue, as it did not throttle the framebuffer updates sent to its client. If the client did not consume these updates, VNC server allocates growing memory to hold onto this data. A malicious remote VNC client could use this flaw to cause DoS to the server host.
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Affected products
9- Range: <=2.11.0
- osv-coords7 versionspkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3
< 2.6.2-41.37.1+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.1-6.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.1-6.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.1-6.12.1
Patches
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References
8- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/102295nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1104nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1113nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3062nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213nvd
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