CVE-2017-5856

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.

• CWE-401

• http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=765a707000e838c30b18d712fe6cb3dd8e0435f3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/19Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/14Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95999Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418342Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28Third Party Advisory
• http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=765a707000e838c30b18d712fe6cb3dd8e0435f3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/19Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/14Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95999Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418342Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28Third Party Advisory

Published

Mar 16, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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