CVE-2016-9915
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 29, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 8, 2016
Description
Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-handle.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local privileged guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and possibly QEMU process crash) by leveraging a missing cleanup operation in the handle backend.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security updatemailing-list
- 94729vdb-entry
- [qemu-devel] 20161116 [PATCH v3 0/4] 9pfs: add cleanup operation in handle/proxy backendmailing-list
- GLSA-201701-49vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20161207 CVE request Qemu: 9pfs: memory leakage via proxy/handle callbacksmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20161208 Re: CVE request Qemu: 9pfs: memory leakage via proxy/handle callbacksmailing-list
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30
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