Memory leak in the megasas_handle_dcmd function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) commands with the sglist size set to a value over 2 Gb.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-03-16T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:11:48.732Z

Reserved: 2017-02-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-5856

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-16T15:59:01.007

Modified: 2023-02-12T23:29:47.607

Link: CVE-2017-5856

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-01-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-5856 - Bugzilla