CVE-2017-9373
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with IDE AHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly hot-unplugging the AHCI device.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-7 |
| 9.0 | Affected | — |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d68f0f778e7f4fbd674627274267f269e40f0b04
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/05/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98921
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458270
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9373.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9373
CWEs
CWE-401
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.