cvelistv5 - CVE-2016-9913

CVE-2016-9913

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-12-29 22:00

Modified

2024-08-06 03:07

Severity ?

Summary

Memory leak in the v9fs_device_unrealize_common function in hw/9pfs/9p.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) via vectors involving the order of resource cleanup.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4774718e5c194026ba5ee7a28d9be49be3080e42
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
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CVE-2016-9913

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

ghsa-vp7p-jj4c-cj5h

Vulnerability from github

gsd-2016-9913

Vulnerability from gsd

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