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CVE-2017-5552
Memory leak in the virgl_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu-3d.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.40%
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- mitre
Description
Memory leak in the virgl_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu-3d.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (5)
- GLSA-201702-28 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 95773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170120 Re: CVE request Qemu: display: virtio-gpu-3d: memory leakage in virgl_resource_attach_backing (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=33243031dad02d161225ba99d782616da133f689 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170120 CVE request Qemu: display: virtio-gpu-3d: memory leakage in virgl_resource_attach_backing (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .