CVE-2017-5856

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a memory leak in the megasas handle dcmd function, which can be exploited by local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service through host memory consumption. This can be achieved by sending specially crafted MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) commands with the sglist size set to a value over 2 Gb.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.