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CVE request Qemu: usb: redirector: memory leakage when destroying redirector


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 17:04:15 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the USB redirector usb-guest support is vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw. It could occur while destroying the USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'.

A guest user/process could use this issue to leak host memory, resulting in DoS for a host.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg01379.html

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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