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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:35:22 -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: audio: memory leakage in ac97 device

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> [] Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the ac97 audio 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/msg01740.html
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=12351a91da97b414eec8cdb09f1d9f41e535a401

Use CVE-2017-5525 for this (i.e., a memory consumption issue, not an
information disclosure issue).

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