Vigil@nce - QEMU: memory leak via pvrdma_realize
December 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: QEMU.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: denial of service on server, denial of service on
service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 13/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can create a memory leak via
pvrdma_realize() of QEMU, in order to trigger a denial of service
on the host system.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/QEMU-memory-leak-via-pvrdma-realize-28019