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CVE-2018-20123 QEMU: pvrdma: memory leakage in device hotplug
From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:02:30 +0530 (IST)
Hello,A memory leakage issue was found in the way QEMU initialised its VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. In pvrdma_realize() routine, if an error occurred, it did not release memory resources allocated to various objects.
A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory, resulting in DoS for host.
Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg02817.html This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 163.com. Thank you. -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team 47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F
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