CVE-2017-5526

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

Memory leak in hw/audio/es1370.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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
QEMU: through 2.8.1.1

References

http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=069eb7b2b8fc47c7cb52e5a4af23ea98d939e3da
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95669
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=069eb7b2b8fc47c7cb52e5a4af23ea98d939e3da
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95669
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

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