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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Affected products
7- osv-coords5 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg: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%20SP2
< 6.1.0-32.1+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.1.0-32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.6.2-41.9.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/23/3nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/2nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/95781nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28nvdThird Party Advisory
- git.qemu.orgnvd
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