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QEMU: vnc: memory leakage upon disconnect

Published Mar 5, 2020

Description

QEMU 4.1.0 has a memory leak in zrle_compress_data in ui/vnc-enc-zrle.c during a VNC disconnect operation because libz is misused, resulting in a situation where memory allocated in deflateInit2 is not freed in deflateEnd.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This flaw did not affect the versions of `qemu-kvm` as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

Weaknesses (2)

References (12)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 5, 2020
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Jan 20, 2020
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Sep 17, 2019
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 5, 2020
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2019-10934