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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1612061659200.2165@wniryva>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 17:04:15 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Li Qiang <liq3ea@...il.com>
Subject: CVE request Qemu: usb: redirector: memory leakage when destroying
 redirector

   Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the USB redirector usb-guest support is 
vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw. It could occur while destroying the USB 
redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'.

A guest user/process could use this issue to leak host memory, resulting in 
DoS for a host.

Upstream patch:
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   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg01379.html

Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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