CVE-2017-5578

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.

• CWE-401

• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/23/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95781Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28Third Party Advisory
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/23/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95781Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28Third Party Advisory

Published

Mar 15, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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