Vulnerability: CVE-2017-5525

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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.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95671
http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=12351a91da97b414eec8cdb09f1d9f41e535a401
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/19
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/7
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5525

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