CVE-2017-15124 (GCVE-0-2017-15124)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-09 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:50
VLAI?
Summary
VNC server implementation in Quick Emulator (QEMU) 2.11.0 and older was found to be vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation issue, as it did not throttle the framebuffer updates sent to its client. If the client did not consume these updates, VNC server allocates growing memory to hold onto this data. A malicious remote VNC client could use this flaw to cause DoS to the server host.
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CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102295 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525195 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1104 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1113 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3062 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
QEMU Qemu Affected: 2.11.0 and older
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Date Public ?
2017-12-18 00:00
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