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Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local privileged guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consum...
CVE-2016-9916
First seen on SecPulse
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9916 qemu Fixed in: 1:2.8+dfsg-1
Original description The description as published by the source.
Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.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 proxy backend.
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