Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 1, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-9060
CVE-2017-9060
Description
Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of "VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT:" commands.
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References
5- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/19/1nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatch
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/98632nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03nvdThird Party Advisory
- git.qemu.orgnvd
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