CVE-2017-9060

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2017-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of "VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT:" commands.

Affected products

QEMU: through 2.8.1.1

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dd248ed7e204ee8a1873914e02b8b526e8f1b80d
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/19/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98632
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452597
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dd248ed7e204ee8a1873914e02b8b526e8f1b80d
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/19/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98632
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452597
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

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