CVE-2017-5856
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 16, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 1, 2017
Description
Memory leak in the megasas_handle_dcmd function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) commands with the sglist size set to a value over 2 Gb.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20170201 CVE request Qemu: scsi: megasas: host memory leakage in megasas_handle_dcmdmailing-list
- 95999vdb-entry
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security updatemailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418342
- GLSA-201702-28vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20170202 Re: CVE request Qemu: scsi: megasas: host memory leakage in megasas_handle_dcmdmailing-list
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=765a707000e838c30b18d712fe6cb3dd8e0435f3
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