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Bug 618812 (CVE-2017-5526)

Summary: <app-emulation/qemu-2.9.0: hw/audio/es1370c memory leak (CVE-2017-5526)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor CC: qemu+disabled
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: B3 [stable/cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-05-18 05:00:15 UTC
CVE-2017-5526 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5526):
  Memory leak in hw/audio/es1370.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.
Comment 1 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2017-05-18 05:01:56 UTC
I do not see this in our bugs but I think it might be already covered by previous version.  Please advise.
Comment 2 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev 2017-05-18 05:11:38 UTC
This is fixed in upstream commit

  069eb7b2b8fc47c7cb52e5a4af23ea98d939e3da

which is present in 2.9.0.
Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-05-18 10:37:43 UTC
we fixed this bug in our 2.8.0-r1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 606264 ***