CVE-2017-9374
Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with USB EHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly
02 Description
Memory leak in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with USB EHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.43% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 37.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-06-16 22:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 17:02Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-06-02
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 17e310aa743be5471df72110d485401b2994cfcd11f8f6c6c777dfdefd7182c6
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-3920http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170606 CVE-2017-9374 Qemu: usb: ehci host memory leakage during hotunplughttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/06/3
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459132
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2392https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- git.qemu.orghttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d710e1e7bd3d5bfc26b631f02ae87901ebe646b0
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2408https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- www.securityfocus.com98905http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98905
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.8+dfsg-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.8+dfsg-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.8+dfsg-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- qemu Fixed in 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.