CVE-2017-8309: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in the audio/audio.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly starting and stopping audio capture.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.9.1
• Red Hat Openstack: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only

Published 2017-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.