Medium severity · published Jun 16, 2017
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…
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
through 2.8.1.1; 2.9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9373
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9373
git.qemu.org
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d68f0f778e7f4fbd674627274267f269e40f0b04
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/05/1
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98921
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
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