Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5579

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-15 15:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 15:04:15

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in the serial_exit_core function in hw/char/serial.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of device unplug operations.

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