VYPR
Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 15, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-5578

CVE-2017-5578

Description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.

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