Vigil@nce - QEMU: memory leak via the AHCI emulation
August 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
A privileged attacker, inside a guest system, can create a memory
leak via the AHCI emulation in QEMU, in order to trigger a denial
of service on the host system.
Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE Leap, QEMU, RHEL, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 06/06/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
A privileged attacker, inside a guest system, can create a memory
leak via the AHCI emulation in QEMU, in order to trigger a denial
of service on the host system.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/QEMU-memory-leak-via-the-AHCI-emulation-22901