CVE-2017-5578

Name	CVE-2017-5578
Description	Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_attach_backing function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
qemu (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23	fixed
	stretch (security)	1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17	vulnerable
	stretch (lts), stretch	1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19	vulnerable
	buster	1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8	fixed
	buster (security)	1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12	fixed
	bullseye	1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3	fixed
	bullseye (security)	1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm	1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5	fixed
	trixie	1:8.2.1+ds-2	fixed
	sid	1:8.2.2+ds-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
qemu	source	wheezy	(not affected)
qemu	source	jessie	(not affected)
qemu	source	(unstable)	1:2.10.0-1	unimportant
qemu-kvm	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

[jessie] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[wheezy] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
- qemu-kvm <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
Fixed by: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=204f01b30975923c64006f8067f0937b91eea68b (v2.9.0-rc0)
Introduced after: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=62232bf48456bda4058ceae05851bc58c1032338 (v2.4.0)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415795
Marked as unimportant, since 1:2.8+dfsg-2 upload reverts
enable virtio gpu (virglrenderer) and opengl support