Memory Leak in QEMU's virgl_resource_attach_backing Function Allows DoS via VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING Commands

CVE-2017-5552 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Memory leak in the virgl_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu-3d.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.

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