CVE-2017-5578
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.12%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-5578
To remediate CVE-2017-5578, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/qemu—upgrade to 2.8.1-r1 or later
- —upgrade to 1:2.10.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2017-5578 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.8.1-r1
- from 0, < 1:2.10.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |