CVSS 3.0
7.5 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2017-15124
High (7.5) in qemu qemu. EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
VNC server implementation in Quick Emulator (QEMU) 2.11.0 and older was found to be vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation issue, as it did not throttle the framebuffer updates sent to its client. If the client did not consume these updates, VNC server allocates growing memory to hold onto this data. A malicious remote VNC client could use this flaw to cause DoS to the server host.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 86% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-770, CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- qemu:qemu