CVE-2017-5578: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1.1

Published 2017-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.