CVE-2017-8379: Debian Linux

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

Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by rapidly generating large keyboard events.

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.