cve-2016-9915
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-29 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:07
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| secalert@redhat.com | http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30 | ||
| 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.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html | Third Party Advisory | |
| 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 |
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