CVE-2016-10155

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

Memory leak in hw/watchdog/wdt_i6300esb.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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-03-15 15:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-09-07 10:29:00

Affected Software

QEMU

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=eb7a20a3616085d46aa6b4b4224e15587ec67e6e

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20170120 CVE request Qemu: watchdog: memory leakage in virtual hardware watchdog wdt_i6300esb

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20170120 Re: CVE request Qemu: watchdog: memory leakage in virtual hardware watchdog wdt_i6300esb

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory

95770

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

RHSA-2017:2392

RHSA-2017:2408

[debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update

GLSA-201702-28

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