CVE-2016-9916 (GCVE-0-2016-9916)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-29 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:07
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.com http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
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