CVE-2017-8086

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) versions prior to the fixed version

Description A memory leak issue exists, allowing local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service through memory consumption. This issue involves the orig value variable in the v9fs list xattr function.

Recommendations For QEMU versions prior to the fixed version, consider updating to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent memory consumption denial of service attacks.