Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-23T03:56:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.642Z

Reserved: 2017-04-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-8379

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-05-23T04:29:02.180

Modified: 2021-08-04T17:15:35.690

Link: CVE-2017-8379

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-04-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8379 - Bugzilla