CVE-2017-8086

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value variable.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-772

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03Third Party Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/25/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98012Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg01636.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 2, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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