6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/03/2
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98277
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg05599.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03