CVE-2017-15124
Public on 2018-01-09
Modified on 2018-06-11
Description
VNC server implementation in Quick Emulator (QEMU) 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.
Severity
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | qemu-kvm | 2018-06-08 | ALAS-2018-1034 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | qemu-kvm | 2018-06-07 | ALAS2-2018-1034 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 2.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 3.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |