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LIN9-4309 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2017-8379

Created: May 25, 2017    Updated: May 29, 2018
Resolved Date: Aug 10, 2017
Found In Version: 9.0.0.6
Fix Version: 9.0.0.8
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

Description

Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8379

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