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CVE-2017-15268

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

Qemu through 2.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a memory leak by triggering slow data-channel read operations, related to io/channel-websock.c.

Affected products

• QEMU: through 2.10.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101277
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1104
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1718964
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg02278.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101277
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1104
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1718964
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg02278.html

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