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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9913

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.8+dfsg-1"}]}]

Debian:13 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.8+dfsg-1"}]}]

Debian:14 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.8+dfsg-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org