QEMU CVE-2017-15124 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	102295
Class:	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:	CVE-2017-15124
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Dec 18 2017 12:00AM
Updated:	May 02 2018 12:00PM
Credit:	Daniel Berrange (Red Hat).
Vulnerable:	Redhat Virtualization 4 Redhat OpenStack Platform 9.0 Redhat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) Redhat OpenStack Platform 12 Redhat OpenStack Platform 11 Redhat OpenStack Platform 10 Redhat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 Redhat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 + Trustix Secure Enterprise Linux 2.0 + Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 + Trustix Secure Linux 2.1 + Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 QEMU QEMU 0 Oracle Linux 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

QEMU CVE-2017-15124 Denial of Service Vulnerability

QEMU is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to cause a denial-of-service condition.

QEMU CVE-2017-15124 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

QEMU CVE-2017-15124 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

QEMU CVE-2017-15124 Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/13] Fix VNC server unbounded memory usage (Qemu)
  
• QEMU Homepage (QEMU)
  
• Bug 1525195 - (CVE-2017-15124) CVE-2017-15124 Qemu: memory exhaustion through f (Redhat)
  
• CVE-2017-15124 (Redhat)
  
• Oracle Linux Bulletin - April 2018 (Oracle)