CVE-2017-5856 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.14% · 34.3th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.14%
34.3th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSqemu0, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSqemu0, 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9, 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu10

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