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LIN8-6217 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2017-5856

Created: Mar 28, 2017    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Apr 1, 2017
Found In Version: 8.0.0.15
Fix Version: 8.0.0.16
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5856

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