CVE-2017-5526
Qemu: audio: memory leakage in es1370 device
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · January 11, 2017
Updated · May 13, 2026
Description
Memory leak in hw/audio/es1370.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of device unplug operations.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 4.1CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 · 2.3AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime