CVE-2017-15124

CVE-2017-15124

Vendor Qemu
Product Qemu
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published January 9, 2018
Last update August 5, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

VNC server implementation in Quick Emulator (QEMU) 2.11.0 and older was found to be vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation issue, as it did not throttle the framebuffer updates sent to its client. If the client did not consume these updates, VNC server allocates growing memory to hold onto this data. A malicious remote VNC client could use this flaw to cause DoS to the server host.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 9, 2018 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated