Unrated

Memory leak 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...

CVE-2016-9914 First seen on SecPulse Dec 30, 2016

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9914 qemu Fixed in: 1:2.8+dfsg-1

Original description The description as published by the source.

Memory leak 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) by leveraging a missing cleanup operation in FileOperations.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

References

advisory openwall.com
advisory openwall.com
advisory securityfocus.com
advisory lists.debian.org
advisory security.gentoo.org
patch lists.gnu.org
web git.qemu.org

Key facts

Severity: Unrated
Published: Dec 30, 2016
First seen on SecPulse: Dec 30, 2016

NVD OSV

Detection sources

OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities)Oct 20, 19:48