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ALPINE-CVE-2017-5578

ALPINE-CVE-2017-5578 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.5qemu0, 0.10.6-r0, 0.10.6-r1
Alpine:v3.10qemu1.4.0-r0, 0, 0.10.6-r0
Alpine:v3.8qemu0, 0, 2.8.1-r0
Alpine:v3.9qemu1.2.0-r0, 0, 0.10.6-r0
Alpine:v3.7qemu0, 2.8.1-r0, 2.8.0-r4
Alpine:v3.6qemu0.10.6-r0, 0, 0.10.6-r1

Timeline

  • Mar 15, 2017 CVE Published
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Jun 15, 2026 CVE Updated
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