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CVE-2017-9060 Qemu: virtio-gpu: host memory leakage in Virtio GPU device

From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 15:48:44 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support isvulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while processing'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT:' command.


A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory resulting in Dos.

Upstream patch:
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  -> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=dd248ed7e204ee8a1873914e02b8b526e8f1b80d

Reference:
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  -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452597

This issue was reported by Li Qiang of Qihoo 360 Gear Team.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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