cve/2017/CVE-2017-5856.md

### [CVE-2017-5856](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5856)
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### Description

Memory leak in the megasas_handle_dcmd function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) commands with the sglist size set to a value over 2 Gb.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418342

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.