Bug 1500749 - Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock channel
Summary: Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock channel
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1496879
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1496886
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Reported: 2017-10-11 12:06 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-10-11 12:11:02 UTC
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Description Prasad Pandit 2017-10-11 12:06:51 UTC 
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the I/O channels websockets support is
vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while sending screen
updates to a client, which is slow to read and process them further.

A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause a DoS on the host
and/or potentially crash the Qemu process instance on the host.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg02278.html

Reference:
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  -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1718964
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2017-10-11 12:11:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1496879 ***
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