QEMU Keyboard Input Event Handlers Memory Leak Vulnerability

QEMU Keyboard Input Event Handlers Memory Leak Vulnerability

CVE-2017-8379 · 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 keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.

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