CVE-2017-5525

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 15, 2017 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:20 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxQEMU

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

Memory leak in hw/audio/ac97.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of device unplug operations.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 2.8.1.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (6)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/19
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/7
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95671
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-401

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