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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:42:16 -0500
From: <cve-assign@...re.org>
To: <ppandit@...hat.com>
CC: <cve-assign@...re.org>, <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
	<liqiang6-s@....cn>
Subject: Re: CVE request Qemu: serial: host memory leakage in 16550A UART emulation

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> Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the 16550A UART serial device emulation
> support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while doing a
> device unplug operation; Doing so repeatedly would result in leaking host
> memory, affecting other services on the host.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause a DoS and/or
> potentially crash the Qemu process on the host.
> 
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg01945.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416157
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=8409dc884a201bf74b30a9d232b6bbdd00cb7e2b

Use CVE-2017-5579.

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