CVE-2017-5525

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CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p33

Published

Mar 15, 2017 (Mar 15, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Memory leak in hw/audio/ac97.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.

Vendors: qemu debian
Products: qemu, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-401
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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