What is CVE-2017-9060?

CVE-2017-9060 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-06-01.

How severe is CVE-2017-9060?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Qemu

CVE-2017-9060

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (33.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Qemu
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9060?: CVE-2017-9060 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-06-01.
How severe is CVE-2017-9060?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.