CVE-2017-9373

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.

Published: Jun 17, 2017
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2017-9373
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5.5
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 1.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-401

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
qemu / qemu	-	2.8.1.1.x
qemu / qemu	2.9.0-rc0	2.9.0-rc0.x
debian / debian_linux	8.0	8.0.x
debian / debian_linux	9.0	9.0.x

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d68f0f778e7f4fbd674627274267f269e40f0b04
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

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2017-9373