CVE-2017-5579

Publication date

2017-03-15 15:00:00

Family

redhat

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.